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Divorced. Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, 47, chief of Scotland's Clan Campbell, who is currently engaged in the resurrection of a sunken 16th Century treasure ship ("I think the world is too drab; we could do with a little romance"-TIME May 15); by his second wife, Louise Clews Varreck Campbell, 45, who Charged adultery; after 15 years of marriage, two sons; in Edinburgh...
Bighearted Molly Goldberg (played, as usual, by Author Gertrude Berg) still rules her clan with the same firm but pliant hand that stirs the big pots forever simmering on her stove. She never runs out of soup for the neighbors, malapropisms for the audience, or schemes for rearranging other people's lives. This time, almost wrecking her husband Jake (Philip Loeb) in the process, she regroups a romantic quadrangle involving an overage suitor and his pink-cheeked fiancee, a middle-aged widow and an eligible young...
Nowadays there are 80 subfamilies of the Rana clan. All of their legitimate sons are automatically appointed major generals on the day they are born. At birth the illegitimate sons of the Ranas become lieutenant colonels. (Some U.S. Army captains see a similarity between American and Nepalese practices in this respect...
...Shubert) is the first light comedy in seven years by the author of Aren't We All?, Spring Cleaning and The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Lonsdale still favors the drawing room, in this case a ducal one. But in this case the Duke of Bristol and all his clan are stony broke, and-except for industrious Gerard-indolent, incompetent and alcoholic. A young American heiress to $10 million (Beatrice Pearson) wanders in off the road with pneumonia, falls madly in love with Gerard (Ralph Michael), and he with her. But Gerard won't marry money and Mary...
...Edith Sitwell, poetess of Britain's famed Sitwell clan, explained why critic-baiting was her favorite sport: "I can't resist sharpening my wits on a wooden head any more than a cat not sharpen his claws on a table...