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...outdoor setting added much to the atmosphere of the play. William D. Roberts has designed an awesome set of towering (fifteen feet) platforms and Gothic arches. The stage is sombre, but only to act as background for the lush costumes and lighting. Brilliant greens highlight Satan--strange amber tones play over the Witches' revels where nudes and hags mingle in what might have been better dances. Unfortunately they suffered from lack of definitive choreography and professional performance. Satan would not tolerate such slip-shod work on the part of his disciples...
...self-analytical autobiography The Trouble with Cinderella; by wife No. 7, onetime Cinemactress Doris Dowling, 32; after nearly four years of marriage, one child; in Las Vegas, Nev. Among Shaw's better-known former wives: Cinemactresses Lana Turner and Ava Gardner (Nos. 3, 5), Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor...
...capital lawyer and being jettisoned by his wife (since 1930), confirmed rumors that he is entranced with thrice-wed (to All-America Footballer Robert Herwig, Bandleader Artie Shaw, Attorney Arnold Krakower) Novelist Kathleen Winsor, 37, best remembered for her sex-clogged 1944 opus about naughty 17th century England, Forever Amber. Forever contending that she herself is no Amber, Kathleen allowed that she will marry Porter in May. Said Author Winsor: "I plan to really keep house when we settle down . . . I've been taking cooking lessons for a year and I'm thoroughly domesticated...
...trouble was economic. The British public was bewildered and resentful. Only two years ago the Tories were boasting of a boom. Last fall Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler had put on an "amber light"-nothing to worry about, just a little caution needed. Last week, though no Tory minister dared use the term, the word on the tip of their tongues was "crisis...
Greedy Economy. Butler's amber light had obviously not been enough to slow down Britain's course towards inflation. Last month Britain's gold and dollar reserves dropped to a figure lower than at any time since 1952. Instead of closing, the trade gap was widening alarmingly. Vital coal production, which had dropped 2.000,000 tons last year, was still dropping. Harold Macmillan. the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, said ruefully: "One of the Prince Regent's physicians earned a certain notoriety, though not perhaps very large fees, by telling his royal patient that all that...