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...production, with every joke clicking right into place, but also overestimates the amount of new humor that can be choked from the old contest between a scatterbrained actress and her no-nonsense sister. In last week's episode, Eileen (played by Shirley Bonne) caused Sister Ruth (Elaine Stritch) sleepless nights when she invaded the lair of a panting Broadway producer. One genuinely amusing touch: in a nightmare, Big Sister visualizes the producer's office furnished entirely with couches, and flies to the rescue as Super-Ruth. Although too much depended on the belief, no longer universally entertained, that...
...Americans had been virtually sure to get a red hat: Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer, 56, appointed last September to succeed Chicago's late Samuel Cardinal Stritch as head of the largest Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. (1,942,000 members). Shy, scholarly Archbishop Meyer, son of a Milwaukee grocer, is known as a brilliant administrator and a cautious interviewee-on his appointment to Chicago he refused to say whether he would transfer his allegiance from the Milwaukee Braves to the Chicago Cubs. Met by a crowd of newsmen and clerics at a Chicago airport last week, as he returned...
...Appointed Bishop William E. Cousins of Peoria, Ill. archbishop of Milwaukee to replace Archbishop Albert G. Meyer, who was transferred to Chicago (TIME. Oct. 6) to succeed the late Samuel Cardinal Stritch. Milwaukee's new archbishop, 56, a native Chicagoan, was auxiliary to Cardinal Stritch from 1949 until...
Goldilocks has a professional air, from the period brightness of the Peter Larkin sets and Castillo costumes to the sound showmanship-hers all energy, his all ease -of Elaine Stritch and Don Ameche. Dancer Pat Stanley is piquant, and the best of Agnes de Mille's dances and ballets are stylish. No One'll Ever Love You is a sassy duet, The Beast in You an amusing ditty. Walter Kerrs staging is lively and firm, and here a quip and there a crack bears Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) Kerr's dewy, screwy touch...
...nostalgia than satire. Out of early films Goldilocks fetches up some indulgent laughs, but never any period lure. And Goldilocks rather fits the formula it at one point joshes: it is "first of all a love story, a tale of two lovers in love with each other." The Stritch-Ameche romance has none of the sogginess of musicomedy librettos, but it has their dogged, round-the-mulberry-bush complications. Despite nice up-to-date frills and out-of-date furbelows, Goldilocks has neither a 1958 freshness nor a 1913 charm; it has chiefly Broadway know...