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...Poacher & Pro. At 35, Mankowitz has already put his characters into novels (Old Soldiers Never Die, A Kid for Two Farthings) and movies (The Bespoke Overcoat, Expresso Bongo). He has turned them loose in plays, short stories, poems, TV shows and news stories. He also finds time to serve as a successful theater and TV producer, a TV panelist, an internationally respected authority on Wedgwood china (he is co-owner of London's largest china shop), and he is the author of three books on pottery. "The theater," says Mankowitz. "is fair game. I reserve the right to poach...
...colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with a happy ending...
...Trouble with Harry (Paramount) is the usual trouble with corpses: people can't let dead enough alone. A little boy (Jerry Mathers), playing in the woods, sees Harry first and runs to tell his mother (Shirley MacLaine). A retired tugboat captain and local poacher (Edmund Gwenn), who has just sent three rounds after a rabbit, finds Harry lying there with a little round blood spot on his forehead. "Oh, my!" he exclaims, for it is not hunting season. He is about to dispose of the evidence when the village spinster (Mildred Natwick) strolls by and. noticing Harry...
...Kilgallen, who often seems to have patterned her technique on that of tenacious Lawrence Spivak of Meet the Press. Hearst-Columnist Kilgallen is distinguished by her no-nonsense approach and her relentless slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a rabbit poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager beaverability is Florence Rinard of Twenty Questions. Cinemactress June Lockhart...
...between booming songs, (Keel and chorus), and snow capped mountains, Fernando Lamas slinks in from the swamp and proceeds to capture the affections of naive Rose Marie. This is singularly ungratifying because besides being a poacher and corrupter of the wilderness, he is two-timing a cute little Indian bump and grind dancer named Jane Grey. It might be said with some justification here that Lamas, "who loves zee woods, and cannot stond zee ceeties and zee thought of zee zame ever'day", does not quite come across as a lover of the aesthetic. Even when he answers Ann Blyth...