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...does everything Field's choreography asks of her decently enough, and since that never seems to permit her to be half as exciting as she can be I think she should ask for more. Rounding out the trio is Phyllis Newman, a nice enough lady and a good enough trouper, but also somewhat miscast in this show full of ingenues. As for the men, well, the three are smooth-shaven and as enthusiastic as all hell, but so interchangeable that none is really outstanding...
Died. Bebe Daniels, 70, film star of the 1920s and '30s; of lung cancer; in London. Born into a theatrical family, she made her stage debut when her mother carried her onstage at the age of ten weeks. At four she was a trouper; at seven she was in movies. "Whatever I missed as a child," she once said, "I didn't mind missing." At 14 Bebe became Harold Lloyd's leading lady and at 18 achieved stardom after she signed with Cecil B. De Mille, later playing opposite Wallace Reid and Rudolph Valentino. She married Actor...
...jokes together with jarring poignancies. The two interrupt each other like hot and cold running water. Some super performances are to be savored. Julie Harris has played Little Girl Lost so often that she can sleepwalk her way through the part, but she is too much of a trouper not to do it beautifully. Nancy Marchand is as flinty as the Maine coast. As a visiting fellow teacher, Rae Allen is a delightful vulgarian, and lard would not melt in her mouth. Top honors go to Estelle Parsons, caustically jovial, slapping her consonants with the back of her tongue...
Died. Anita Louise, 53, blonde Hollywood veteran who starred in more than 70 films; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A trouper since the age of five when she played in The Sixth Commandment, she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in films during the late 1930s. Her roles ran the Hollywood gamut (Casanova Brown; Retreat, Hell!), but she confessed a preference for period and costume pictures (Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Marie Antoinette in Madame Du Barry...
...studded audience the kind of entertainment that has made him a sort of cultural hero to Nixon's generation. After all the belly laughs were over ("I played golf today and shot a 72; tomorrow I'm going to play the second hole"), Skelton displayed an old trouper's feel for his audience by dramatically reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag amid a reverential hush...