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...Halpern clan is a family of cartoon monsters. Vulgar, egomaniacal Mama (Ruth Gordon) is a compulsive shopper with delusions of solvency. Masochistic Papa (Walter Matthau) is a corner-cutting shoe manufacturer who is going bankrupt in a paroxysm of anguish and gallows humor. Son Bernie (Anthony Holland) is a leaky, self-expressing drip, the kind that leaves a brown stain in a washbowl. At play's end, simple-witted Bernie is out in the once pristine West shilling with a tom-tom for some once noble Indians who are now corrupt enough to con the tourists with their fabricated...
...Plastic shoes have been around for years, and 35 companies now turn them out. But plastic has mostly been used for cheap shoes because it does not breathe like leather and usually makes feet hot and uncomfortable. Now a plastic-like material has been developed that looks, feels and breathes like leather, and is said to wear better and cost less to make. For the $700 million leather industry, which devotes 85% of its business to producing leather for shoe uppers, a challenge is at hand as great as the one that faced the textile industry a dozen years...
...exile from the Winter Palace of Czar "Nicky." With her is her consort. General Mikhail Ouratieff, played with the suppleness of a tin soldier by Jean Pierre Aumont. For food, resourceful Tatiana steals artichokes; for fun, the local White Russians have dances in their peasant pantskis-Kazachoks. waltzes, soft shoe, maxixe, tangos, polonaises-name it, they do it. Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar (Alexander Scourby) is trailing Mikhail for the money, and Tatiana proposes that they give...
...succeeded was TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho. From Beirut last week he cabled his report on a 23-day trek in which he crossed the peaks, plateaus and wadis from Aden to the Saudi Arabian border, traveling a total of 1,000 miles by camel, donkey, car and shoe leather without once leaving royalist-held territory (see map). Along the way, Correspondent De Carvalho was repeatedly shot at by Egyptian fighter planes, tanks, mortars, and artillery, saw two of his six Yemeni guards killed and one wounded in battle...
Father Halpern (Walter Matthau) is a shoe manufacturer who bungles the business devices that everyone else succeeds with (like exploiting tax loopholes and war scares). He is not the Little Man, but a small-scale tax self-consciously. His wife (Ruth Gorevader; not poor, just going bankrupt don) is a silly woman whose mother-love is gauged in terms of what she can buy her son, whose purpose in life is to get bargains, and whose problems are valued at the going Psychiatric rates. "Me," their son Berney, still wants to "find himself" at twenty-six. He hopes...