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...mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven-year-old Actor Ray, who is altogether winning as the grimy orphan who wants a peek at the mother of the British Empire...
...excitement except possibly a lancer charge or two. As Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard, Errol Flynn dallies with some dusky harem girls, but the script steers mercifully clear of a love story, and even Flynn takes a back seat to the boy. Kim is still the India-born British orphan who has grown up as a sun-bleached native urchin in the clutter of Lahore. His best friends: a wandering Tibetan lama (Paul Lukas) and Horse Trader Flynn, who doubles as a spy. Recognized by the British, who pack him off to a pukka school, Kim plays hooky, picks...
...Sehulberg's book opens, Halliday is a diabetie, a debtor, a voice of the twenties which is no longer heard. He is assigned to collaborate with a worshipful youngster on a movie, "Love on Ice," which he calls, "An orphan child born of artificial insemination on a box office counter." As the two writers seek a plot for this movie, Halliday gradually exposes his past...
Smoke-Bursts & Soot-Falls. As a comic strip, Capp's Li'l Abner is not the most popular in the U.S.: it can be accurately described only as one of the top five-a group which also includes Little Orphan Annie, Blondie, Dick Tracy and Joe Palooka. At least two of them, Blondie and Dick Tracy, claim more readers, but the promotion departments of national syndicates fire off such billowing smoke-bursts of conflicting claims that the truth of the matter has long since been buried under a soot-fall of verbiage...
...framer of this apothegm is the proprietor of both a good restaurant and an unusual personality. He is the self-styled Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, once a Brooklyn-born orphan boy named Harry Gerguson, who spent half his life amiably panhandling the rich of two continents. But in Hollywood, where Mike Romanoff settled after being immortalized in a five-part New Yorker profile, he finally cashed in on the fact that he is one of the few genuine, 24-carat phonies in a city where thin plating has often been known to pose for the real thing...