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...this offspring of 1959's The Mouse That Roared just barely squeaks by. Sorely missed is Peter Sellers, who in the triple role of Grand Duchess Gloriana of Grand Fenwick, Prime Minister Mountjoy and Field Marshal Bascombe managed to make Roared an off-beat tour de force. Neither waggish, wrattled Margaret Rutherford as the 1963 model Gloriana nor fatuous, foppish Ron Moody as the new Mountjoy manages to do more than add tricks to what is already too tricky...
...known as the "promenade." in which opposition voters are sent fruitlessly from polling place to polling place, being told at each that they are not registered there. De Gaulle now views Debré with a more kindly eye than he did during his premiership a year ago; according to waggish Paris comment, Pompidou was like a mistress whom De Gaulle saw with pleasure, but who lost many of his charms when he became la légitime, that is, wife. If De Gaulle gives the expected nod, Michel Debré will take over the job of president of the Gaullist...
...humor of this waggish tale depends principally on one fact: the slight but definite resemblance between Ustinov and his canine counterpart, portrayed by a swaybacked, dewlapidated Italian stage dog called Caligola. The spectator is continually reminded that inside the dog there is the villain, and the recurrent after-image of Ustinov doing all those doggy things is unfailingly good for an arf. Actor Ustinov, held in leash by Director Ladislao (Marcelino) Vajda, does pretty well for a mere human being, but of course he is not nearly so funny as Caligola. The dog wags Vajda's Tail...
...Painter. A waggish, 15-minute tale about the wondrous 'work habits of a dribble-and-splotch painter...
...coming-out ball for Jeanette Constable Maxwell, 17, daughter of a longtime Getty friend. The party drew excellent notices from the press. "Easily the most fabulous evening since the war," burbled London Daily Express Columnist William Hickey, who also hailed it as "good, oldfashioned, vulgar fun." Another waggish Fleet Streeter made a kill joy calculation: the party lasted eight hours and probably cost Getty $30,000 -but in the same period his fortune automatically swelled by an estimated...