Word: tovarich
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...Tovarich is the largest disaster Vivien Leigh has been involved in since the burning of Atlanta. As Scarlett O'Hara, she shrugged off unpleasantness with "I'll think of all this tomorrow." Virtually all that will bear thinking about in Tovarich is the age-resistant loveliness, piquant charm, and skilled show-womanship of Vivien Leigh...
...mild comic conceit at best, and time has made the resulting camouflage and persiflage dimly dispiriting. In 1936, Russia was remotely terrible but not dangerous, still exotic enough for period romance and period humor, attitudes no 1963 playgoer can sustain. Tovarich needed a boldly inventive face lifting, but its book and lyrics sadly sag. Its tune-shy music may please any metronomes in the audience. Sample wit: "Let's go down to the kitchen and get a potato and make our own vodka." Sample lyric...
Died. John Halliday, 67, suave, well-tailored fixture of stage & screen drawing rooms for some 27 years (The Circle, The Spider, Jealousy, Tovarich); of a heart ailment; in Honolulu...
Jacques Deval, 54, French dramatizer of drawing-room gaieties and boudoir confusions (Her Cardboard Lover, Tovarich, Boudoir), was sued for "adequate" separate maintenance in Manhattan by Actress-Wife Else Argall, 30. She charged that he got his boudoirs confused, had told her his gaieties were "necessary in order to stimulate his creative talents as a writer...
Married. Miriam Hopkins, 40, stage & screen (Becky Sharp) star; and Ray mond B. Brock, 32 wartime Balkan correspondent of the New York Times; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Alexandria, Va. Her third husband was Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director (Mayerling, Tovarich...