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...Prince and the Pauper: For its one-night stand on the DuPont show, CBS's 90-minute version of Mark Twain's soufflé of make-believe, abounded in virtues that spell "longrun" to Hollywood-a sumptuous production, an exciting, neatly organized story, topflight performances soundly directed. Producer David Susskind, searched seven weeks in the U.S. and abroad to find a pauper (Johnny Washbrook) to match Rex (The King and I) Thompson's prince, coddled his show through three weeks of rehearsal. Amid a staggering 19 sets, Director Daniel Petrie moved his cameras and 100 players with...
...schedule, putting, a heavy strain on the same old adjectives. Complained Hearst's Dorothy Kilgallen: "The only thing you can say for 'this story is that nobody can get scooped. I simply can't write 'radiant' or ''beaming' or 'sumptuous' one other" time." One day when the Queen looked exhausted, Reporter Kilgallen reached all the way to "fatigued incandescence." Prince Philip himself summed up the problem sympathetically in a chat with a knot of newsmen at the British embassy garden party. The reporters in the royal wake, he noted, "press...
...felt sure that the series would give the Press a strong weapon in a campaign to change Ohio legislation that ties the hands of mayors and police chiefs against "entrenched practices" among the police. Gordon, whose previous reporting was limited to real estate, basked in his sudden celebrity. A sumptuous brunette, he said, recognized him from his pictures as he rode home on a rapid-transit car, and, leaning over, her mouth close to his ear, whispered: "Hello, Badge...
...Dramatic Soprano Anita Cerquetti, 26, has one of the most sumptuous voices to soar out of Italy since Tebaldi. Large-volumed and agile of voice, she scored her first major success in Bellini's Norma at Verona four years ago, has since become a widely acclaimed guest singer of the standard Verdian repertory. Her voice has appealed to most critics as a cross between Tebaldi's "silky elasticity" and Callas' bite and thrust. Big-boned and fleshy-faced, she has been most often criticized for carrying too much weight to put across the dramatic illusion her roles...
Song Without Words. In Waukesha, Wis.. The Raconteurs, a men's writing club, staged an essay contest on "Why Men Are Better Writers Than Women," scheduled a sumptuous dinner for the winner: Mrs. Grace Woodard...