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Oldtime Cinemactress Corinne Griffith, 58, in her heyday the eye-filling "orchid lady of the screen," revealed that the bloom was off her 22-year marriage to garrulous George Preston Marshall, onetime Washington laundryman and owner of the Redskins pro football team. Corinne, a West Coast realtor, will file for divorce, told a reporter: "There is no marital bliss in being 3,000 miles apart. And as hard as I tried, I just couldn't learn to play football." Promoter Marshall, for once, had no comment...
...firmness. Washington's principal rushed to Teacher Graner's support. William F. Hopkins, a topflight Cincinnati criminal lawyer, offered to defend her without fee ("More paddlings like that would help to keep down our prison population"), and 40 members of the Cuvier Press Club sent her an orchid corsage with a note saying, "We salute you!" Finally, the day before her case came up in court. Teacher Graner got the biggest boost of all. Her entire class. Roscoe included, chipped in nickels and dimes to throw a "good luck" party to wish her well. Snorted Judge Frank Gusweiler...
...heavy fragrance of that well-known man-eating orchid, romanticism, hangs about the story from the start, but in the culminating scenes, translated almost literally from the page to the screen, the odor is cloying. On her deathbed the heroine pleads piteously, "You won't do our things with another girl, will you?" But she hastens to add, in the tone of a flapper who would not be caught dead with a conventional notion about sex, "I want you to have girls, though." He sobs, and she promises, with a ghastly smile, "I'll come and stay with...
...story concerns a young prince, disconsolate over the death of a vivid, orchid-eating ballerina. He lives on a vast French estate that has reproduced the world of inns and nightclubs and ice-cream wagons that were part of his romance. Into this world the prince's wacky, loving duchess aunt brings a young milliner who greatly resembles the ballerina. The aunt hopes that her nephew will fall in love once more. At first he resents and snubs the girl, while she surmises that he has never really loved the dancer. But soon all goes spinningly...
Time Remembered is less moonlit than footlighted, and is most rewarding-in fact, is great fun-when it is a stylish theater piece, full of little acting doodads and knickknacks, of interpolated flourishes and roulades: a trio practicing orchid-eating, a wild snatch of Swan Lake, a bit of supper ritual, a quite mad hunting scene. As the flighty duchess, Helen Hayes -if not wholly French-is very often wholly delightful, alternating an actress' skill with a vaudevillian's liveliness. Richard Burton plays a prince who is more bored than bereaved with a fine sullen dash...