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...WARWICK THE KINGMAKER, by Paul Murray Kendall. A vivid, expertly handled biography of the Earl of Warwick, the fascinating 15th century British kingmaker who fought in turn on both sides in the bloody civil Wars of the Roses, eventually became drunk with power and died while trying to drink more...
...Revson owns 950,000 (worth $25 million) of Revlon's nearly 2,670,000 shares (Senior Vice President Charles Lachman, who is represented by the "l" in Revlon, owns 525,000). With that much financial stake in his own company, Revson expects a lot from Madison Avenue. Small Warwick & Legler (1956 billings: $14.5 million) is expected to get the biggest slice of BBDO's lost account. As for BBDO, said cheery Charlie Brower: "I'll just go out and get eight new $1,000,000 accounts...
Fire Down Below (Warwick; Columbia) rises high and could have soared higher but for a curious fact: its proper beginning seems uncomfortably wedged in its middle. Two of the three principals disappear in the midst of the story for half an hour of screen time. The curious result is a fast-paced adventure yarn laced around a taut interlude of high drama...
...play to the screen almost word for word. The result is talk, talk, talk. And even when the talk is good Shawmanship, Preminger and his cast manage to make it bad acting. Indeed, the whole company plays with such clumsiness that the expert Sir John Gielgud, as Warwick, has to pick his way to histrionic success like a first-string halfback dodging through the scrub...
Stately Homes. Europe is still the first love of footloose Americans. Britain expects 5% more Americans than last year's 255,400, who enriched Her Majesty's dollar reserves by $148 million. One-fifth of them will do the Windsor-Stratford-on-Avon-Warwick Castle-Edinburgh packaged run. But more and more are turning up in Torquay, the poor man's Riviera, and in Brighton, Britain's Atlantic City, or in the picturesque homes of British aristocracy which have been thrown open, at a fee, to tourists. Last week the Duke of Bedford...