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...Pleasure of His Company (Paramount) is requested at the wedding of Miss Debbie Reynolds to Mr. Tab Hunter at Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco. Because the requested company is that of debonair Fred Astaire, playboy father of the bride, there is bound to be some bounce. And with Lilli Palmer, Fred's ex-wife and the bride's mother, handling the arrangements, one can expect grace and polish. But otherwise, it is a Nytol nuptial. Where the 1958 Broadway play (by Samuel Taylor "with" Cornelia Otis Skinner) set in motion a sea of social-comedy soap bubbles...
...Double (Paramount). Danny Kaye is one of a precious clutch of performers who can still appear alone on a bare stage and hold audiences from riffraff to royalty rapt for hours. Yet Hollywood insists on ballooning his Pied Piper image with Panavision, or multiple-tracking his slap-happy sounds, or painting simple comedy in exotic new colors. His recent films, including this one, have added enough gimmicks and gewgaws to throttle Danny's vintage gitgatgittle. What was once A-OK is now beginning to seem just Oh, Kaye...
...wires across fields to make sure that Indians and horses hit the proper patch of dust. Cooper survived, got a new first name (his own was Frank, but his pressagent was homesick for Gary, Ind.) and a feature part in Sam Goldwyn's The Winning of Barbara Worth. Paramount grabbed him from Goldwyn at $125 a week. Studio pressagents tagged him the "It" boy, and tried to promote a romance with Clara Bow. Coop cooperated: he shied at couches and dimity all his life, but only on-camera...
Better Luck? On landing in the U.S., Sukarno headed first for the Paramount lot and the high life of Hollywood. On the itinerary for this week is Washington, where President Kennedy plans personally to meet Sukarno when he lands at the National Airport, for Sukarno is both vain and touchy. "It is wise of President Kennedy to invite one of Asia's leaders at the start of his term," noted Sukarno grandly...
Finally, we referred to the questionnaire at length in reaching the conclusion that the issue of acceleration was really not paramount in students' entering the program. Only 22 out of 133 definitely intended to graduate in three years...