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...Dark of the Moon" is no easy play to do, but last night's H.D.C. production was very good. Its legend with music of a witch-boy seeking love successfully ran from the comedy of a revival meeting ("One more chorus and the Lord'll have him") to the fantasy of witches and Conjur men, to the realism of childbirth and rape...
...Hetty Wilks, who learned the art of dollar-pinching from her fabulously rich mother Hetty ("The Witch of Wall Street") Green, left an estate estimated at more than $75 million. Except for $1,000,000 to be divided among friends and servants, the estate goes to 63 charities, churches and schools, including Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Vassar. Biggest bequest: $3,000,000 to Johns Hopkins...
Bell, Book and Candle. Britain's Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison, consistently bright in John van Druten's reasonably bright comedy about a modern witch (TIME...
...commented that a lawyer with Communistic leanings can take advantage of the "free and easy way of trying cases in America." He pointed to the recent trial of Communist leaders in New York as an example, but noted that the decision of the Bar Association might well lead to "witch hunts...
Died. Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, 80, possibly the world's richest woman (worth $100 to $125 million), daughter of Hetty Green, "The Witch of Wall Street" (1835-1916); in Manhattan. As a girl, she often lived in shabby flats, cooked and sewed to save pennies for her millionaire mother. She grew up an ungainly recluse, usually dressed in black, at 38 married 57-year-old Matthew Astor Wilks, great-grandson of Millionaire John Jacob Astor I. Wilks left her a mere million to add to nearly $50 million from her mother, $43 million from her brother...