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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany. There is a girl, but no love interest, and aside from a few conflicting personalities within the group of fugitives there is no real attempt at character delineation. But all this is perfectly excusable, simply because the pace is so rapid as it is that any attempt to add undercurrents of plot would undoubtedly slow the picture down...
...balanced performance last night to a house that was packed to the caves. However, the performance made up of Tchaikowsky's classical "Swan Lake," Schoenberg's ultra-modern "Pillar of Fire," and Offenbach's breathless extravaganza "Bluebeard" would be a top-notch attraction any time. And when you add to this the glitter and glamour of the Opera House crowd and stars Markova, Baronova, the evening should be a memorable experience...
Strip for Action (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; produced by Oscar Serlin, Lindsay & Crouse) is a ramshackle play and an uproarious evening. Playwrights Lindsay & Crouse plunged into work with a good idea: turning loose a burlesque troupe in an army camp. To this half-tropical, half-topical brew they add colorfulness, craziness, sex and laughs-they know...
...board of trustees in Manhattan. At Chengtu (nickname: "Little Peiping"), where it is a neighbor of West China Union University and three other Christian universities (Ginling, Nanking, Cheeloo), Yenching is likely to remain one of the world's great universities: to its already distinguished faculty it plans to add several eminent foreign scholars...
...books (called the Air-Age Education Series) add an aeronautical third dimension to mathematics, physics, biology, history, geography, economics, politics, even literature. History lessons now plug a new crop of aero-heroes (from Leonardo da Vinci to the Wright Brothers). Biology lessons describe what happens to a pilot when he blacks out. Social science lessons picture a post-war world of "aerial freight trains," and decentralized living. Anthologies of the rich, adventurous literature of flying enliven English lessons...