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...speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last fortnight that he would sponsor a bill to "freeze" Canadian insurance companies' dividend-payment policies...
...buildings are more or less a joint project; both will be designed by the Boston firm of Coolidge, Sheepley, Bullfinich, and Abbott, planners of Lamont Library. Provost Buck stated yesterday that the proposed G.E. revolving stage room--which might be a natural showplace--was never intended as a theatre. In any case, the National Production Authority last month prohibited the erection of any new building with intent for "amusement, recreation, or entertainment purposes...
Some of Playwright Patrick's individual remarks are original and funny; several of his scenes are brisk and entertaining. But the play as a whole suffers badly from a frantic mixture of styles (all the way from George Abbott to Barrie) and from a sameness of subject matter. The "guests" at the Cloisters can only trot out their obsessions; the old lady can only defy and deceive her stepchildren. And the staging, which might have given the play a nice airy unreality, makes most of it noisily blunt...
...nonsense, of course, but of a restrained sort. Pinero, though he does have most of the cast hiding under tables at one point, at least does not stoop to custard pies. The Victorians needed to relax at a farce now and then, but they would never have cared for Abbott and Costello...
Through the ten years of growth, Abbott pointed out, Canada has stayed financially sound. Each year since the end of World War II, the national treasury has shown a comfortable surplus. It has also boosted its foreign investments. In 1939, Canada had $1.8 billion invested abroad v. $7.3 billion of foreign capital invested in Canada; since then Canada has upped its foreign investments to $4.7 billion v. $8.5 billion of foreign capital in Canada...