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Chautauqua Symphony (Sat. 4:05 p.m., ABC). Première, with Guest Conductor Walter Hendl...
Radio Chitchatter Sloan Simpson, estranged wife of Expatriate William O'Dwyer, onetime mayor of New York City and later U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, was back on her old Manhattan stamping grounds, showed up for a midnight movie première looking as if she were the town's First Lady all over again...
...Hollywood première, Lana Turner, whose fourth husband, Cinemactor Lex ("Tarzan") Barker, likes her as a brunette, looked happy as a turtledove, although their marriage, which took place in Italy, was all of 3½ months old. Just to prove that this match is forever, Lana and Lex were married again on Christmas Eve for the benefit of her mother, her attorney and her daughter Cheryl, 10, who had all missed the earlier ceremony...
Onetime Movie Moppet Margaret O'Brien, out of pigtails and into evening dress at 16, came demurely up the celebrity line at the CinemaScopic première of The Robe (see CINEMA) with a man at her arm: Toastmaster George Jessel, 55. Flashbulbs popped as Jessel hastened to explain that there was nothing between them: "My date tonight is with Margaret's mother...
From London came more ballet news last week: the première of a new number, The Lady in the Ice, with scenario and sets by Orson Welles. Welles, challenged to try a ballet at a chance meeting with Choreographer Roland Petit in Paris, tossed off a scenario idea on the spot: a young girl is frozen in a block of ice; thawed out by a young man's ardent dancing, she comes to life, but as her enthusiasm waxes, his wears out, and at the end it is he who is frozen solid. Welles helped with the staging...