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...Catholic priests, lived obscurely with her hard-working husband Bernard in a cheap flat on Manhattan's dark, noisy Third Avenue, near 43rd Street. When Bernard would go out evenings to solicit insurance, big, broad-faced Rosa would wave a loving farewell to him from the window. One stifling summer night last year Bernard had gone out and Rosa, after a bath, was puttering about her kitchen in a loose gown. Through the open door strode a great, bullish...
Died. Lee-Adam Gimbel, 34, Manhattan stockbroker (Sartorius & Smith), onetime member of the New York Stock Exchange, onetime vice president and director of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Manhattan department store); by falling or jumping from a 16th story window of the Yale Club; in Manhattan...
...rest of the show is average good. Best musical numbers: "Throw It Out The Window," "I'm One of God's Children." Memorable in the entertainment is the appearance of Funnyman Fields as the director of a cinema company who can Progress no farther with his film than the infinite taking and retaking of a game of Kelly pool. "You can't play Kelly pool?" he finally exclaims. "And you call yourself an actor...
...parts-a gallery of wretched pantaloons topped off just before the last curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian Winter, 39, fought off his wife and father, pushed himself out of an eighth-story window, plunged to his death (just missing Dancer Clifton Webb's chauffeur) because he was afraid he would not be a success as Gogol's ill-smelling hospital commissioner...
...party-it is an old story and the treat-ment is old too, in spite of the settings. Douglas Fairbanks carries it off as nearly in his inimitable manner as he can manage amid the encumbrances of modernity. He swings himself around a good deal on poles and window ledges. His voice, entirely different from his radio tones of two years ago, has the drawling, nasal twang that is the mode among the smart people who are his friends offstage, but that has not quite the ring of naturalness...