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...never manages to rule Marre's Kate. Lois Rosenberg treats Bianca's duplicity as a child's game. And Kerry Konrad and Stephen Toope play the suitors, Lucentio and Hortensio, with surface flair but little depth. When one ends up with Bianca and the other with a willful widow, the marriages strike one not as unfortunate mistakes but merely as their just deserts...
Malevolent as a demon. Treacherous as a serpent. Savage as a mad dog. These were only a few of the epithets that have been hurled at the 62-year-old widow of Mao Tse-tung since her arrest early last month. By last week the official campaign of vilification had turned into a formidable bill of indictment. The increasing gravity of the accusations may be a grim prelude to a secret purge trial of the "Gang of Four" -Chiang Ch'ing and the discredited leaders of Shanghai's radicals...
...gone through a Rod McKuenesque crush on trains, for instance, will drool over the authentic Express that director Sidney Lumet takes across the Alps. But the glamorous actors are obviously doing their bits and picking up their payroll; only Venessa Redgrave stands out for her gigly working girl and widow Lauren Bacall for her embarrassing bitchiness. The experience finishes like a meal of all that luscious food: the idea, and even the indulgence, sound inviting, but too many rich actors leave the film constipated...
SWIM TEST--The widow of Harry Elkins Widener donated her husband's huge fortune and impressive book collection to the University on two conditions: the first, that not a single brick be removed from the Widener Memorial Library, and the second, that every freshman be required to pass a swim test in the IAB pool. Mrs. Widener felt that her son, who died tragically in the sinking of the Titanic, would have lived had he known how to swim...
Died. Mrs. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, 76, widow of the Sultan of Swat, baseball's greatest player; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Broadway dancer from Georgia, Claire Hodgson was unimpressed when she first met Ruth in 1923. "His face and his stomach were fat, his legs like a chorus girl's," she wrote in her 1959 memoir The Babe and I. As his second wife, she helped curb the Bambino's bacchanalian excesses during their 19-year marriage. After his death, she became the custodian of his legend. Though the Babe's home-run records...