Cinema: Third from the Right

Mr. Mum jumble's been telling my

bumps,

And it seems I'm a wonderful girl.

I'm lovable, kind, ambitious, refined,

And likely to marry an earl.

Thus, in the late '20s, Britain's A. P. Herbert, wit, poet and longtime M.P. (see PERSONALITY), assessed the future of a blonde, green-eyed London chorus girl in a little verse titled The Third from the Right. Last week, a quarter-century later, Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham, although she long ago refused the titled suitor, found herself still in Spot No. 3. Just to the right of her in the new and different...

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