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SOMETHING for Everyone follows a predictable fairy-tale formula for its plot: impoverished Countess von Ornstein and her two children are restored to wealth by a dashing adventurer named Conrad in a fable which ends with a grand wedding. The lubricant of the story, however, is sex: sex perverted, sex sublimated into aggression, sex released in libidinal fantasy. The result of Harold Prince's debut directorial effort for the screen is a minor masterpiece of black comedy...
...history (knight-errantery, courtly love, etc.); Something for Everyone, through parody of the fairy-tale, slyly parodies history. It unmasks in a Bavarian setting the rise of a parvenn power-maniac, played by Michael York, as a cool mastery of perversion and murder. Angela Lansbury as the Countess von Ornstein nostalgically bewails the passing of "real men"-that stalwart Germanic breed in direct lineage from Attila the Hun and Barbarossa. In a world of "upstarts, the American tourists and plastic dirndls," she craves submission to a genuinely phallic male like Conrad. She also craves money...
Conrad insinuates himself into the Ornstein family circle first by murdering a groom, then by revealing the Nazi obsessions of the stolid head butler. While sexually subduing both doe-eyed, effeminate Helmut and the Countess, Conrad seduces the unprepossessing daughter of a German magnate. The millionaire and his imbecilic wife want to buy a castle and instant social status. Conrad, of course, sees the connection between their ambitions and the Countess' wish to re-open her decayed ancestral fief, Helmut marries the heiress, though he and his bride aspire only to sexual bliss with Conrad. Conrad himself mercy awaits...
Radcliffe also competed in the New England Collegiate Tennis Tournament for Women two weeks ago. Ginny Storrs '69, one of four Cliffies in the tournament, reached the semi-finals, but then lost to the eventual champion, Susan Ornstein of Simmons...
Died. Dr. George Guttman Ornstein, 71, chest specialist who, as medical director of Staten Island's Sea View Hospital from 1931 to 1955, tried dozens of drugs for tuberculosis, finally in 1952 directed the testing of two newly-developed isoniazids on 92 seemingly hopeless patients, saved every one, a breakthrough that put the doctor out of a job when Sea View and other TB hospitals closed for lack of patients; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...