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SENIORS AT BRIGADOON-Marilyn Row, Larned senior, and Stanley Lehman, Abilene senior, enjoy coffee and donuts at Senior Night at Brigadoon Wednesday. Approximately 275 seniors set in a special reserved section for the performance.
Bv Rael Amos
"Gable acts his age"—so the advertisement says, and in this case it's right. Clark Gable moves out of the "young lover" class in his newest picture "But Not For Me" now showing at the Granada. But it's not a big jump—from young lover to old lover. He still woes the women, but in this case misses the one he's after.
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Lilli Palmer steals the show in the part of Russ Ward's (Gable) divorced wife. Her facial expressions, apting and hiltingly subtle remarks (in speaking of Ward, "He's an old man in the bedroom class") jets the movie-goer know why she has long been a Broadway success.
In the meantime, Lilli Palmer is sitting back enjoying the show. Every chance she gets she is tosx-
The plot involves a Broadway producer (Gable) who is sinking everything he has in a play written by a drunken writer (who turns straight), Jeriamiah MacDonald (Lee J. Cobb). MacDonald is sure he can't save the poorly-written, oft-revised script, but at the last moment Gable gets the right lines from his secretary Elinor Brown (Carroll "Baby Doll" Baker). They come as he tells her, in a fit of desperation, he's quitting the theater. She professes her never-exposed love for him—and the lines go into the show. The rest of the script is built around secretary Brown's love for him.
lessons, and in an important conference with a proposed backer for the show, wins her place to play the part on the stage.
The tears, laughs and other stereotyped actions of the show to reach Broadway, help build to a delightful climax. One of the best comedy lines of the movie comes as the audience is acclaiming the show's first appearance on Broadway when one New York mounted policeman listening to the applause says to another:
"Another winter out here—every night. Sorry old boy," he adds, patting his horse.
Ella Fitzgerald's rendition of George and Ira Gershwin's title song leaves a note in the movie-goer's heart.
Edith Head's costumes would be better shown in color, but even in black and white their taste and "expense" easily can be seen.
ing around barbs about her exhband's "old age."
By a strange quirk of fate, Miss Brown has been taking dramatic
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