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...REX CLAWSON-Royal-Athena II, 1066 Madison Ave. at 80th St. Clawson mixes nerve with verve in wax-oil-and-casein commentaries on politics, crime, Mom and libido. Not a fig leaf in the show. Through...
...announced the arrest of six "agents" of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Several of the prisoners, he said, had been captured Oct. 21 while attempting a night landing on the western tip of the island, coming ashore in two launches from a "mother ship" that Castro identified as the Rex, a 170-ft. vessel flying the Nicaraguan flag and operating out of West Palm Beach. The raiders were armed with two .30-cal. machine guns on each of the launches, and the Rex was loaded for bear: a 75-mm. cannon, two 57-mm. and five twin 20-mm. cannon...
Salami for Rubbernecks. Even to shuttle summer traffic through the country, Liechtenstein grudgingly has to double its police force, which consists normally of 18 men and a dog named Rex. The well-named Quick Tourist Office concentrates its energies on selling visitors Swiss watches, Belgian francs and Liechtenstein cuckoo clocks, which are made in West Germany. Since the country's medieval castles bear signs saying "No Castle Visiting," insistent rubbernecks usually get to see the salami skin factory or else one of two plants where strikingly healthy Liechtensteiners turn out false teeth and artificial limbs for world markets...
...gallons of simulated rain per minute pouring down, Warner Bros, began shooting My Fair Lady, and plopping gamely into the puddles went Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, that "so deliciously low, so horribly dirty" flower girl who gets brought indoors by Professor Higgins. Audrey and Co-Star Rex Harrison were not the only ones getting soaked: the movie rights ran to an all-time high of $5,500,000 and production will cost an estimated $15 million, a record for the studio. Audrey herself will collect a splashy...
...well aware that Shaw was constantly proclaiming himself a dramatist far superior to Shakespeare. I am also aware that the Shakespeare Festival in Ontario has broadened its offerings to include Oedipus Rex, Cyrano de Bergerac, and H.M.S. Pinafore. I am a great admirer of Sophocies, Rostand, and Gilbert & Sullivan; but their place is not at a Shakespeare festival...