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...Novelist Doris Miles Disney's* story of a raffish family's efforts to hornswoggle an insurance company out of $20,000 in death benefits, gives Actor David Wayne his first chance to cut loose with the comic talent he displayed in Broadway's Finian's Rainbow and Mister Roberts. With his help, Writer-Director Claude Binyon squeezes enough chuckles out of a series of corpses to make up for a romantic subplot that is dead on its feet...
Rested and restored after her recent breakdown (TIME, July 3), Song & Dance Girl Judy Garland flicked her line into the lake at Sun Valley, Idaho, pulled in her first catch of the season: a 7½-oz., 10-in. rainbow trout...
...similarity was no coincidence. Flanagan's first big break came when he arranged an album for Rainbow Records called A Tribute to Glenn Miller, who was reported missing in a flight over the English Channel during the war. Then he got a chance to try a few more in the old "danceable" mood. Recording with a house band of studio musicians, he turned out four sides for Victor's revived Bluebird (49?) label which sold so fast that some dealers hiked the price to 79?. Flanagan's next recording sold just as well. Before he knew...
...with its "social significance" showing blatantly would be laughed off the stage, plays with effectively disguised messages are still produced. For the most part audiences agree with the hero of Odest. "The Big Knife," who says, "If you've got a message, call Western Union." Shows like "Finian's Rainbow" and "The Respectful Prostitute" continue to draw because their messages are sugar coated with music, comedy, and good old-fashioned sex. The point is that theatrical producers did, and occasionally still do, present plays critical of the vices arising from a capitalist system, while Hollywood never has and probably never...
...Million Thresholds. In the afternoon, President Prasad drove five miles through New Delhi's cheering streets. The magnificent viceregal coach (with crowns removed) was drawn by six horses, and escorted by the mounted viceregal bodyguard, in scarlet tunics and flowing rainbow turbans. In Irwin Stadium, 3,600 picked soldiers, sailors and airmen paraded for Prasad, who unexpectedly saluted as they passed. Said an observer: "This show is more British than the British would ever dare...