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Just when almost all Britain was rejoicing over the impending May marriage of Princess Margaret to a happily suitable commoner, Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, the editors of a top British authority on noble genealogy, Debrett's Peerage, came along to spoil the illusion that Tony is just an ordinary bloke. After 16 days of laborious climbing in a forest of family trees, Debrett's Assistant Editor Patrick Montague-Smith proclaimed that Armstrong-Jones is not only of royal blood but also a very distant kinsman of Margaret. In a complex chart, Montague-Smith submitted proof that Tony...
Playwright Cross's desperate measures for keeping melodrama afloat at all costs and his not knowing that too many wrinkles spoil the plot sink what starts off as a good realistic thriller and what, as staged by Windsor Lewis and acted by Lloyd Nolan, Alfred Ryder and others, remains a good naturalistic production. Although to scratch any of the play's characters is to find a stereotype of stage and sea, their talk is effectively racy and their mutineering instincts show promise. The trouble, in the end, is that they mutiny on the author. The play closed...
Norwich's only bright spot in a dismal evening, Jerry Schilling brought the score to 6 to 2, but the Crimson snapped out of its momentary relaxation to net three more on Masaschi before the night was over. Schilling tapped in a rebound off Willy Henderson's chest to spoil the Crimson goalie's shutout, and beat Henderson seconds later on a high shot from the left...
...chaplain; there is nothing left but the tainted and ambiguous influence of the psychologist, who must bargain for peace and the lives of the guards. Before the insurrection is over, one man has been tortured and two cons are dead (killed by their fellows because they tried to spoil the gratuitous beauty of the riot with an attempt at escape...
...laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Last week millions of televiewers found out the answer: no, because there is nothing to spoil. His amiable, muscular and vacant manner scarcely intruded on some predictably competent guests-Lisa Kirk (topnotch nightclub numbers), Sammy Davis Jr. (dervish dances and impersonations), Comedian Mort Sahl (sick, sick...