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Last week, in what was described as a change of "situation," not policy, a special dispatch rider from Kwini Elizabeth rode over to King Freddie's Belgravia flat with a message from Her Majesty. It said in effect that if the Buganda Lukiko (Parliament) wanted him back and was willing to accept a few constitutional reforms limiting his power, the Kabaka could go home and be king again. Unmentioned in the note was the fact that the Colonial Office, already deeply troubled by race war in Kenya and rising black nationalism in Britain's West African colonies, wants...
...pantomimist Jacques Tati, who played the Chaplinesque lead in the movie Mr. Hulot's Holiday (TIME, July 5). Tati was the hit of the show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep the show from becoming a busy, shapeless, cluttered mass of sight and sound...
...into semifiction. After an early setback, for instance, Ataturk is made to muse: "Yes, Pasha, and like that monstrous egg in the rhyme for children, you had a great fall." In the end, Author Brock's purplish flights-the old roughneck gallops off as a kind of ghost rider in the sky-obscure the black-and-white facts of Ataturk's life, which was more fantastic than any biographer's invention...
...moving horse and playing skip rope together. This is comic relief and the dogs are talented and very cute. The Valkyries, three cowgirls, do a Roman Jumping Act on five or six white horses, and then, after the calf-roping contest, it is time for The range Rider (Jack Mahoney) and his Saddle Pal (Dick West...
Like Byron Hendricks and his dogs, The Range Rider jumps on a horse, but he does it three ways under a spotlight. Saddle Pal is a stooge who tries to do all the things that Range rider does but just thumps against the horse's side. After each mounting he looks around at the crowd, and shouts, "Well, howdya like the Cavalry split-the neck mount? Didya like it HUH?" Everybody yells and claps and the Ranger Rider mounts another way (which I forget what they call). This goes on for a while and the range rider and saddle...