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Standing a well-proportioned six feet and looking something like a less rugged version of Cinemactor George Sanders, Sir William (knighted in 1951) is a gracious example of a sheltered English composer. Unlike that other popular British musician, Sir Thomas Beecham, Walton is no heady phrasemaker, either in speech or music. Although his music often sounds witty and facile, he writes slowly and for perfection...
Taking care not to nick her big, flat hat, Esperanza Wayne, estranged wife of Cinemactor John Wayne, poked her head out the window of her pickup truck in a fetching demonstration of woe. The truck, used for hauling garbage and dirt about her Encino, Calif, home, "is my only transportation," she wailed. Her Cadillac had been attached for bills run up since she and Wayne parted last year. Esperanza was asking the superior court for $9,000 a month to live on, instead of the $1,100 temporary alimony granted her pending their divorce trial next October...
Nothing But the Best (Tues. 9 p.m., NBCTV) stars Cinemactor Eddie Albert and tries to recapture the easygoing mood of the old Garroway at Large show. But the pace is slow rather than relaxed, and Eddie Albert's folksy chatter merely gets in the way of such guest performers as Torch Singer Lee Wiley, Trumpeter Louis...
Died. Lillian Lamont MacMurray, 45, wife of Cinemactor Fred MacMurray, 44, (Double Indemnity); of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...year, the loophole saves $160,716 in taxes. Expatriates Cooper, Douglas, Peck and Ladd, who make $150,000 to $200,000 per picture, stand to earn close to $500,000 taxfree. Gene Kelly, who has already put in full time abroad, will make closer to $600,000. Not every cinemactor has stayed the limit. Robert Taylor made two films in Europe, then forsook his tax break by coming home. Errol Flynn, on the other hand, has a better reason than most for overstaying his leave: he owes the U.S. $407,839.92 in back taxes...