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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:50 p.m.). Melina Mercouri and her husband Jules Dassin in their catchy-tuned film caricature Never on Sunday (1960), the fevered brow from which the current Broadway hit musical, lllya Darling, sprang...
...brief, unofficial visit to New York "without fanfare or publicity" by King Constantine, 27, and Queen Anne-Marie, 21, prior to more formal stops in Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal and finally Washington to confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front of the TV cameras outside the U.N. entrance, Melina...
ILLYA DARLING brings Melina Mercouri from Piraeus to Broadway to re-create the role of the prostitute of Never on Sunday. Big, brassy and sometimes boring...
...result should be shining and new and for the better. It is better to have a temporary lack of freedom than to wait until the Communists are too powerful. Greece is not in the best economic condition and is ripe for preying Communists. Don't worry about Melina Mercouri and her sentiments; let her remain an actress and do well economically and let the government do well and save the country...
...outlandish decrees, such as the ban on beards, were prudently withdrawn, but others have stuck. The junta has blacklisted the works of nearly 300 Greek and scores of foreign authors, some Red, but others simply liberal, such as Senator J. William Fulbright. They have stripped Actress Melina Mercouri and some 400 other Greeks abroad of their citizenship, because they have "lost their Greek soul and conscience." They have banned Who's Who in Greece; it devotes too many pages to former Greek politicians...