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...trip to the zoo. Then they dictate to the teacher a story about what they have seen. The story appears on the blackboard or on a posterlike "experience chart" and is later read back. As such dictation proceeds, says San Francisco's Assistant School Superintendent (Elementary Schools) Alda Harris, "the children see that their own words can be transformed into written symbols...
Secret File stars Robert Alda, and its first script had a touchingly old-fashioned air. Alda, dressed in Nazi uniform, crept into wartime Germany to locate the factory where Hitler was manufacturing a bacteria bomb. There were squads of brutal and booted Gestapo, a beautiful barmaid (Was she enemy or friend?), a German professor who recoiled from making weapons for mass destruction. Alda had plenty of opportunity to make a stiff upper lip and to say things like "I'm only doing a job that has to be done...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Bob Hope, with Constance Moore and Robert Alda...
Died. Mme. Frances Alda, 69, longtime (1908-29) Metropolitan Opera soprano; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Venice. With typical bluntness, red-haired Soprano Alda once described her marriage (1910-28) to Met Director Gatti-Casazza as "a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other ..." Vacationing in Venice last week with her second husband, Manhattan Advertising Executive Ray Vir Den, she had a fatal stroke 36 hours before they were to hear Old Friend Toscanini conduct at La Scala...
...told of Mme. Alda's death until after the performance, Toscanini conducted believing that she was watching from the Toscanini...