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Beyond Crackpots. By last July, the whole affair had become a subject for widespread conversation-and speculation -throughout the U.S. It had gone far beyond crackpots. U.S. journalists were in a dilemma: if they did not check and it was true, they would look foolish; if they checked too hard...
Restless drifters between the gilded mansions of Palm Beach and the palm-fringed villas of the French Riviera for a quarter of a century, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arranged to spend their silver wedding anniversary with what the New York Times termed "symbolic appropriateness''-at sea...
Died. Louise Fazenda Wallis, 66, gawky Hoosier screen comedienne of the silent days-and wife of Veteran Producer Hal Wallis-who starred in Keystone comedies as the farmer's tomboy daughter (her pigtails were insured for $10,000 by Mack Sennett). later mugged her hilarious way through some 300...
Summer and Smoke (Hal Wallis; Paramount). Playwright Tennessee Williams often writes like an arrested adolescent who disarmingly imagines that he will attain stature if (as short boys are advised in Dixie) he loads enough manure in his shoes. In his most famous plays he has hallucinated a vast but specious...
¶Trumpeter Bob Wallis. 27, gave up a career as a marine engineer to lead his Storyville Jazzmen into the trad boom, dressed in Stetsons and cutaway jackets and looking like the fallout from a Buttermilk Sky. Most trad jazz goes back only 35 years or so. but the Storyville...