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Born. To Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, 52, gravel-voiced Negro comedian, Jack Benny's radio and television chauffeur, valet and drawling stooge since 1937, interpreter of Noah in both the 1936 movie and last fall's TV versions of The Green Pastures, and Eva Anderson, 25: their first son, second child; in Hollywood. Name: Edmund Lincoln. Weight...
...evaluated as one of the landmarks of the naturalistic theater, the play today is still--even in the best of performances--something of a bore. Written in 1888, the play illustrates the conflict between a declining aristocracy and a rising middle class by focusing on the story of a valet in a decadent Swedish noble household who seduces--or, more properly, is seduced by--the daughter of the house. Appalled at what she has done, the weak-willed Miss Julie maneuvers the valet into forcing her to commit suicide...
...Jean, the valet, Eugene Gervasi gives an attractive, albeit uneven, performance. The obvious charm which Strindberg has poured into the character is visible, in Gervasi's rendering, but the cultivated polish and the sinister selfishness underneath are not. Nevertheless, when the script offers him a sharp line, Gervasi delivers it with grace and a fine sense of timing...
Nude With Violin (by Noel Coward) is, more accurately, Noel with one string to his bow. The play concerns a just-dead and extremely famous painter who, it turns out, had never painted a single one of his pictures. As the painter's cheeky, in-on-the-swindle valet. Coward buzzes about while the dead man's family try to hush things up and cope with the actual painter-and potential blackmailer. Then it turns out that there was also a second painter. And, for that matter, a third-and a fourth. Though Coward has carefully varied...
...July 1947, newly naturalized as plain British Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, the ex-Prince of Greece, a relatively poverty-stricken sailor with only one suit of civvies to his name, moved into Kensington Palace to await the ordeal of becoming a bridegroom. "That poor young navy officer," moaned a royal valet, " he don't even have no hairbrushes...