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...Iron Petticoat (MGM) is practically a remake of the old Greta Garbo-Melvyn Douglas comedy about how Lenin's glass-of-water theory is vanquished by Hollywood's slipper-of-champagne theory, and the world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately have been titled Ninotmuchka. Katharine Hepburn, doing her smooth-cheeked, trim-legged best to look like a Soviet with sex appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force...
...combining familiar objects in unfamiliar ways until they become surreal and emetic. In Gaston he describes a rat: "It looked rather like a great hairy carrot; it crouched there as all rats do, as soon as dusk has fallen and there is nothing to distinguish them from a lost slipper or a forgotten rag except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that will suddenly, swift as a whipped top, grow tense with terror." Gaston of the title is a black-spotted rat, as big as a rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers...
Gaby (M-G-M). Hollywood casts Leslie Caron as if she were a broken leg. In Lili, in The Glass Slipper, and now in her latest picture, she has been rigidly restricted to the role of 1) a hot-eyed French girl who is also 2) a pathetic little orphan, 3) a highly trained ballet dancer, at least in her dreams, and 4) dreamily in love with an actor who looks as pretty as a cupcake (Mel Ferrer, Michael Wilding and now John Kerr...
Activities include such opportunities for the slipper-and-lounging-jacket set as a Wine Sippers' Society and a Cheese Tasters' Guild...
Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...