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Francis of Assisi (Perseus; 20th Century-Fox) is only a medium-sized religious picture; there are plenty of horses and a couple of cheetahs but no elephants. Still. Producer Plato Skouras took pains to please Papa Spyros. To tell the story of St. Francis, he took color cameras, cast and Director Michael Curtiz to Assisi...
...hard tough mean mucky real bad thing to see an old champ go soft. Like the Sugarman rubber-kneed against Fender. Like Papa not making it to those trees in time. Like Mickey Spillane coming back with his first book in eight years: "I let him get close enough to kiss me off with his eyes, took the blade out of his fingers so fast he never knew I had it until I raked him hard over the ribs where the blood could make a mess for everybody to see. When I hit him his teeth powdered and he fell...
...eager to spin yarns out of his past. Inevitably, he remembered his 1914 interview with Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany, some three months after the prince's father, Kaiser Wilhelm, had entered World War I: "Willie said to me, 'My dear Wiegand, you must tell Papa that we have lost the war. Every time I attempt to tell him, he gets furious...
Diana retorted that the "assured" life income and cash gift was news to her. Papa's pressure about the fund, she said, was actually caused by her engagement to a schoolteacher, John Means Spencer, of whom Davis disapproves, even though the young man is a distant relative of Winston Spencer Churchill. Said Diana, who herself intends to be a schoolteacher: "I hate to say this about my own father, but he is inclined to be somewhat authoritarian...
...Beginning with his first big record (Thinking of You) in 1950, he turned out 14 straight hits. But rock 'n' roll was already beginning to take over the record business, and soon teen-age fans deserted. Eddie's last big hit record was Oh! My Papa, and it was cut in 1954. Recently he has devoted himself fulltime to woman troubles (a divorce from Debbie Reynolds, a marriage to Liz Taylor), and he had not sung in public for a year and a half when he stepped up to the microphone last week...