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...last leg of her tour the Queen attended state receptions, inspected hospitals, reviewed troops in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia. At a ceremonial durbar in the Sierra Leone provincial town of Bo, some of the paramount chiefs got so high on palm wine that they had to be carried to greet "Mama Queen II" (Queen Victoria was Mama Queen...
...harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough trail-blazing social measures, such as public education and the abolition of child marriage, to justify in the eyes of his people the import of his title: "His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, One Quarter Better Than Anyone Else...
Packaged by David Susskind's Talent Associates-Paramount, the show is run by Producer Robert Costello, who enjoys remarkable freedom to do what he pleases. The Armstrong Cork Co. keeps its distance, and the results show it. "We have no strictly taboo subjects," says Costello, "but I suppose if we wanted to do a show where a child eats a piece of cork flooring and dies, well...
Summer and Smoke (Hal Wallis; Paramount). Playwright Tennessee Williams often writes like an arrested adolescent who disarmingly imagines that he will attain stature if (as short boys are advised in Dixie) he loads enough manure in his shoes. In his most famous plays he has hallucinated a vast but specious pageant of depravity in which fantasies of incest, cannibalism, murder, rape, sodomy and drug addiction constitute the canon of reality. Yet Broadway's bad boy has his sweet-mouthed moments, and Summer and Smoke (1948) is one of them: one of the few plays Williams obviously wrote primarily...
...young and you're so old, This, my darling, I've been told . . . Including both words and music, the entire creative process took four minutes, and Paul Anka was soon in New York, auditioning the song for ABC-Paramount. When Diana hit the top of the charts, Anka abruptly gave up his academic career and set off to plug the song from coast to coast...