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After semi-singing his way through more than 600 performances of Broadway's nonstop musical My Fair Lady, Actor Rex Harrison sailed away from his historic stint. Bound with him for Europe was his bride of five months, long-legged, luscious Cinemactress Kay (Les Girls) Kendall. The couple were headed for a seven-week holiday in Switzerland, then to Paris, where Kay will wrestle with Rex in a movie titled The Reluctant Debutante. When April trips round again next year, Harrison will be doing business in the same old stance-as misogynous Professor 'Enry 'Iggins...
...dimmed the Elizabethan magnificence of the great King James Bible passages, and James Mason brings sonority and good sense to his declamation of Ecclesiastes (Caedmon), making the nameless narrator sound as contemporary as an existentialist in Paris, as ancient as a Pharisee. The sound track of the movie Oedipus Rex (Caedmon, 2 LPs), starring Douglas Campbell and Canada's Shakespearean Festival Players, transports listeners inside the towering walls of seven-gated Thebes for the bloody working out of man's greatest tragedy. Caedmon's The Red Badge of Courage fills the mind with battle flags, drum beats...
...Mark Twain's soufflé of make-believe, abounded in virtues that spell "longrun" to Hollywood-a sumptuous production, an exciting, neatly organized story, topflight performances soundly directed. Producer David Susskind, searched seven weeks in the U.S. and abroad to find a pauper (Johnny Washbrook) to match Rex (The King and I) Thompson's prince, coddled his show through three weeks of rehearsal. Amid a staggering 19 sets, Director Daniel Petrie moved his cameras and 100 players with the fluidity of a movie. "We also put inordinate effort into the script," said Susskind, "on the outmoded theory that...
...Girls (MGM) will unquestionably be remembered by millions as La Girl, and Kay Kendall is her name. Up till now she has been famous only as that girl who blew the trumpet in Genevieve and in real life got married to Rex Harrison (TIME, July 1); but with the release of this picture she stands up on her own true feats to be counted as a major star. She is probably the most beautiful and deft comedienne the British have produced since the late Gertrude Lawrence...
Quickly digesting the platefuls of sweet reviews of Les Girls, Kay Kendall wasted no time in explaining where she fits and with whom. "Women should be a tiny, tiny bit inferior to their husbands," says she. "I don't want to do anything but be with Rex." Still under contract to J. Arthur Rank, for whom she will do three more pictures, Kay is in no particular hurry to go back to Hollywood, is currently letting her hazel eyes scan a pile of play scripts, hoping to discover something that suits her, "so I can keep the same hours...