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Gloria Swanson, David Niven and Alan Webb are starred in this production, and they all have their moments. Miss Swanson, fresh from being batted around by Jose Ferrer in "Twentieth Century," confirms the fact that she is a terrific ham. After a slow first act, she adjusts to the requirements of the "bon mot" dialogue, tossing off her lines with graceful aplomb. But she lags badly in the serious moments, gesturing wildly, striking majestic poses, and trying to act. Fortunately, there aren't many serious moments...
Died. Frank G. Webb, 83, automobile fancier, who got one of the nation's first permits to operate his "automatic pleasure carriage," founded the American Automobile Association in 1902, helped overcome the prejudice of lawmakers against horseless carriages; in San Diego...
...light. In the October issue of Harper's, a new warning voice rolls out, announcing that civilization's "400-year boom" is over because civilized nations have no more geographical frontiers to push back. The voice comes, oddly enough, from Texas. It belongs to Professor Walter Prescott Webb, a thoughtful student of history...
...Webb and his disappearing frontier to the contrary, it appears that there is still considerable elbow room over the next ridge...
...interests of research, Webb uses false papers to get admitted as a 77-year-old to a dreary old folks' home. Before long, his fellow dotards are capering like retarded children, he has deflated pompous Preacher Hugh Marlowe, and increased the pulse beat of pretty but repressed Nurse Joanne Dru. Then Webb is exposed as a fraudulent oldster and, somewhat irrationally, the other inmates turn against him. Eventually, of course, the old folks re-embrace their benefactor, and Belvedere ends in a damp rush of sentimentality that finds the nurse and preacher in each other's arms...