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...from lands other than Hollywood, and he took it in his usual snide. The audience called on Actor Laughton to display his Southern drawl, newly acquired after a careful study of the delivery of Mississippi's real-life Senator John Stennis. Preminger vetoed it. "Meester Laughton," said he, "vill not do it because I vill not allow it." He also ignored the suggestion that the theme of Advise and Consent might evoke a questionable image of the U.S. abroad. He has prudently eliminated most of the book's high-level chicanery...
Gregory Ratoff, in his last screen role-he died last December-briefly brings the show alive and, as the curtain line of his career, disgorges a magnificent Ratoffian mouthful: "You vill pe itten py ze volchers!" Otherwise, the most remarkable thing about the film is its sustained improbability. Greco looks as appropriate in a jungle as a crocodile on the Champs Elysées. The languidly sophisticated little love scenes are hardly the sort that a muscular truck driver and his lively young wife would get much satisfaction from. The landscape doesn't look African...
...about his chances of making the grade in U.S. baseball: "I don't know if I would accept an offer, because I know I wouldn't get one." He will be happy "just to learn," then go back to Amsterdam, where his brother Charles, an O.V.V.O. shortstop, vill take care of a good percentage of the batters that Hannie does not strike out. Charles is O.V.V.O.'s relief pitcher, but the title is strictly honorary. In 150 games over eight years, Hannie has never yet been relieved...
Last week, Fanatic Koch propounded an interesting ornithological theory: that chaffinches have different accents in different parts of the world. Playing the song of a British chaffinch, German-accented Dr. Koch said: "Ant now, as you vill see by my next record, zee German chaffinch, unlike zee Kent chaffinch, finishes op viz a sound like 'wurz debur.' " Sure enough...
...kent be vawter - vawter is in the glesses, and vith lemon on the side has got me beffled complittly. I theenk I vill ask the vaiter...