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...Christmas, Eastwood plays an itinerant musician heading cross country to try for a shot at the Grand Ole Opry. "Kyle plays my nephew in the film," says he. "I demoted him from son, but he's still enjoying it." So apparently is the star. Eastwood plays the piano and guitar, and actually does a little singing in the film. He doesn't blow away as many villains as he does in most of his movies, but someone's got to set an example when there are youngsters around...
...There was Chase's Variety. There was Cole's Hardware ("Quick sales and small profits," the proprietors used to say). An opera house, burned in 1928, was the pride of the town. An ice cream parlor and pool hall did business in the basement. Silent films with piano accompaniment were regularly featured. Young Elden popped the corn and hawked his products to customers at a nickel...
...dinner, and the champagne, a special V.S.O.E. label bottled by Laurent Perrier, flows freely. And as Sherwood has promised, "The bar-salon stays open, and our pianist plays on, until the last guest has retired." "When a Broadway baby says good night," plunks Giany Bars at the baby grand piano, "it's early in the morning...
...Blue Train, which runs between Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown and is considered one of the world's most luxurious. It was Tony Bloom who provided the only honest-to-Bond suspense on one trip: he found $17,000 in a dirty roll of bills next to the piano. The money was claimed, an official reported, by "a Frenchman." Mystery and intrigue are not dead on the Orient Express...
...this very stage in year past, Fred Gwynne '51 was unforgettable at the Stage Manager in Our Term and Big The Ref. and also managed a couple of Shakespeare's eccentrics. But the major serious role of King Claudius is beyond him. Above the level of mezzo-piano his voice takes on an unpleasant ring. And he falls to imbuse the King with sufficient intelligence and efficiency. It is strange, too, that a man who has murdered his way to the throne and is hanging onto it for dear life never once appears with a crown on his head...