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...fashioned a novel about a Harvard undergraduate whose antics defy comparison. Maybe Charlie Garnier's outlook is normal, but his projects certainly are not. The Bubble Makers is as lively a story as polished writing and a subtle sense of irony can make it. Goodman's first book is riotous reading...
...Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, Prince Aly Khan, Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland. Conspicuously uninvited: the Duchess of Windsor, once one of Elsa's best friends, but now (it's mutual) one of her severest critics. To discourage her seagoing party from completely wasting its substance in riotous living, Elsa was also charting a full course of culture-vulture activities, including pilgrimages to antiquities and monuments ashore. Wrote a Venetian newsman awe-strickenly: "Miss Maxwell is even scheduling lessons-but real lessons-in history and art!" Reportedly sniffed the Duchess of Windsor: "Maxwell...
...town's debutantes, sacked the home of the-French governor-under the impression that it was a brothel-and put 38 soldiers in the hospital, there is never a hint of malicious mischief in their fun. A soft reprimand from Fonda is sufficient to calm the most riotous of them...
Wicked Swish. The first number was from a century-old skit called The Three Encounters, in which a suspicious innkeeper crept into a knight's room at night, determined to kill him. What followed turned into a riotous pantomime. The two men groped toward each other as if they were in inky darkness, making fearful swipes with enormous, curved swords. The antagonists' darted, pivoted and leaped over each other while the reedy tones of a Chinese fiddle underlined the wicked swish of a snickersnee, and the soft boom of a gong gave sound to the sensation of naked...
...female, meet in a dark apartment, and as Mr. and Mrs. Price subsequently discover their own respective plots. It seemed unfortunate, however, that the author declined to bring all four of his eccentric characters onstage at one time. With a little imagination this could have resulted in a wonderfully riotous scene instead of the slow fizzle with which the play...