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...wealthy man (his wife is the former Mary Armour of the meat-packing clan), he has been in the State Department for 33 years, has served as assistant to three Secretaries of State, as chief of the Division of European Affairs. Born in Newark, N.J., he became a practicing architect before entering the State Department as a clerk. Dunn's main job has been to keep Italy from falling under Communist control, by cajoling, chivying and maneuvering the. Italian government, without laying himself open to charges of interference. One push in the other direction, appreciated by Italians: his efforts...
...well-lost. Olivier as Antony is impulsive, audacious, angry, half-aging lion and half-untamed whelp; he is not-as Godfrey Tearle was so brilliantly-an assured leader with the weakened fiber and amorous susceptibilities of late middle age. As Antony, Olivier is a good actor, but not the architect of a commanding role. Vivien Leigh's Cleopatra is an all-too-believable enchantress -mercurial, irresistible, even royal; only not of Shakespearean depth and stature. Actress Leigh mistakes mere emotionalism for intensity; she intones-while half-violating - some of her greatest lines...
...reason for Versailles' sad state: inadequate gutters to lead off rainwater, and jerry-built interiors. Seepage has rotted away the wooden beams supporting the parqueted floors, loosened the gold and plaster ceilings which are nailed precariously to deteriorating laths. "It is like a house of cards," says Government Architect André Japy. "If one part begins collapsing, everything else will follow. It is no longer a question of repairing one part of the building; everything must be restored...
...plot of this disarmingly innocent sex comedy is simple enough. It concerns a virtuous young girl who is picked up by an architect atop the Empire State Building. They subsequently go to his apartment, where they are joined by an amiable but immoral neighbor (played by Hiram Sherman with a fraudulent Southern accent) living in an upstairs suite. From there on the presence of the naive and pure young lady in such worldly surroundings is situation enough for Mr. Herbert to spin a clever and funny play which never sags because of its witty conversation...
...playing field itself is 27 feet below ground level and the top tier of the stadium is 26 feet above grounds. To prevent the field from turning into a lake, architect Ferry provided the Bowl with an extensive drainage system. He designed the Bowl so that it slants west to east, the western side being 11 feet higher that the eastern. Of the Bowl's thirty drains in the portals leading towards the field some slant away with the slant of the ground, but those that slant into the Bowl are drained in to water pipes...