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...there any chance of her "doing a Princess Elizabeth?" one reporter asked coyly. "No indication whatever," replied Margaret firmly, adding thoughtfully that she had met several nice young men on the trip. What about the President's recent remark that he preferred grandchildren to a prima donna in the family? Margaret laughed. "I hadn't heard that one," she admitted, "but it sounds just like father...
Meanwhile, back in St. Pierre, dejected Miss Reed has decided to become a nun. Sister Lana & husband get home just in time for a big, tasteless church scene in which Donna takes her vows as Lana makes calf's eyes at Donna's onetime man. The moral of all this seems to be: if you want to be happy, be sure to marry someone you don't love...
...voice of both sweetness and power.... Voices of [Suzy Morris'] caliber are said to be almost nonexistent in this country, but here was a singer who produced tones of opulence, power, wide range. . . . Assuming she has some way to get experience, she could be a prima donna worthy of any opera house...
...puzzle. As a summer fill-in for Veteran Jack Benny, Paar has set no new records. His Hooperating, beginning with a mild 10.2 on June 1, drooped steadily to an ominous 4.8 in late summer. Radio people had all but dismissed him as a heady, handsome prima donna whose humor was too specialized and too sophisticated...
...paced so as to keep the audience laughing most of the time, and in this Evans, has been supremely successful. The dream scene in which the original Don Juan appears and brings out the philosophical content of the play in a long discussion with the Devil, the Commendatore, and Donna Ana, has been cut. In the light of the Evans interpretation of the play, that is all that can be done. The scene is only occasionally funny and hardly dramatic...