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...insurance policy and pull out of the picture, problems piled up. Should they use a double to finish the scenes Ty had left undone? At least 50 applicants asked for the job. Even the final decision to hire Brynner and start again from scratch was plagued with difficulties. Stockier than Ty and almost 3 in. shorter, Yul would need all his costumes made over. He was already growing a beard so the last scenes would have to be shot first, then a shave and a run through the early days when the King of Israel was a beardless youth...
...good Britons. Writer McMinnies' characters spend a good deal of time brooding over breeding. Her characters are as itchily class conscious as if they knew they wore shirts made of the wrong kind of hair and were too proud to scratch. The trouble begins when beautiful Milly Purdoe starts the hanky-panky with the diplomatic bag and makes a baggage of herself with her husband's friends. Unfortunately, the natives are better at this sort of thing, and Milly only proves that Britons never should be Slavs...
Playwright Kurnitz remains Broadway to the core, He is not the only recent playwright whose treatment of a stylish professional world, by comparison with The Man Who Came to Dinner, for example, seems raspingly lacking in style. Once More, With Feeling has none of the stealthy purr-and-scratch of music-world wit; rascals are roughnecks, megalomaniacs commit mayhem, bull fiddles see red. There is not a touch of urbane caricature, it is all plebeian cartooning; and even on its own would be broad popular terms, the play has no real Broadway bounce...
...Number One are generally his friends from the Cape. Mr. Robinson says Harvard poets likely will get the nod next time, and it will be a good thing, no matter how reluctant they are, because the poetry he prints in his first affair is not entirely up to scratch...
...Though Hamburg-Atlantic is moving fast on Atlantic sealanes, the wonder boy of German shipping is a handsome, lean, baking-powder scion named Rudolf August Oetker, who started from scratch and now surpasses both Hamburg-American and its fellow giant, North German Lloyd. Taking advantage of the government tax law (which was repealed 3^ years ago), Oetker invested his big baking-powder profits in shipping. Oetker today controls the largest single German merchant fleet in terms of tonnage, consisting of 40 modern freighters and tankers totaling 375,000 tons...