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...Meanwhile, Playboy Spreckels and San Francisco's Polyclinic Hospital were sued for $60,000 by an ex-Hollywood dancer named Georgia Asper. Her charge against Spreckels (who did 25 days of jail time last November for clouting his fifth wife, sometime Actress Kay Williams, with her jeweled slipper): "Indecent assault and battery" while he and Georgia were fellow hospital patients, with a connecting bathroom, last December. After bursting into her room in a smock so scanty that "he was exposed in both directions," testified Georgia, Sugar Daddy Spreckels wrestled with her lustily and then, outnumbered by three nurses, leaped...
...Glass Slipper (M-G-M), Hollywood feels about as comfortable with Leslie Caron as a truck driver does with a beret-whatever it is, it's not normal. Everybody loved her in Lili (TIME, March 9' . 1953)) but what was it everybody loved? Was she pretty? Not by the usual U.S. standards. Could she act? In Lili it was hard to tell whether she was acting, or just doing what came naturally. "She's gamine," the critics said. The producers asked their wives what that meant, and decided that, as usual, the critics were wrong. A studio...
...Glass Slipper breathes, as Lili did, the atmosphere of a latter-day fairy tale. It is, in fact, the Cinderella story rewritten with the sort of sophistication best confined to the perfume ads. The prince (Michael Wilding) no longer loves his lass just because she is beautiful. He admires her "great agonized . . . rebellious eyes." The glass slipper is now made of "the finest Venetian glass." And the fairy godmother (Estelle Winwood) is a queer old dear who wanders around saying "window sill" because it sounds so nice...
Died. Paul Claudel, 86, French diplomat, poet, playwright (The Hostage, The Satin Slipper, Tidings Brought to Mary) and member of the French Academy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Claudel entered the diplomatic service and wrote his first play (The Exchange) when he was 25, served in a variety of posts in Europe and the Far East while turning out mystical poetic dramas, eventually became his country's Ambassador to the U.S. (1927-33) and its most distinguished writer-diplomat since Chateaubriand. In 1935. he retired to devote all of his time to writing. Although most of his plays...
...excitable Rev. Thurston N. Davis, S.J. produce a U.S. family where the wife invites her husband to "make yourself comfortable, dear, in your slipper-gripper Mistletoes," or tells the children, "jump into your perma-sized skijamas, kids, while I make you some Dagwitches with diced cream and superfection strawberries?" Can he find a poor speller among those same children, who, doing his homework, writes "kar-pokits" or "kon-veen-yunt?" If so, the cross-pollenating Madison Avenue ad men would turn handsprings...