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...minor exceptions the performance was all that could have been expected. There was no lack of smoothness, maturity, etc, by the non-professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor . . . their driving energy . . . their sincere desire to please 'Koussy' and the audience." The music itself is angular, rough, forceful, enthusiastic. Particular attention and praise also should be called to the plaintive woodwin solos at the close of "Look Down, Fair Moon," and the God knows-how-many voice orchestral fugue opening the "Song of the Banner...
...tain resounded through reactionary French circles. It was Pétain's voice on the stormy night of June 16, 1940 that informed the French people that their Government would not fight on from North Africa. His large, angular handwriting was on the armistice signed in the Forest of Compiègne. His governmental planning killed the French parliament, tried to impose on France a corporate state complete with antiSemitism...
...head of a startled Australian infantryman. He had demanded stiff training and stiff discipline from the troops just behind the lines, and he had personally directed every type of night attack, marched with new troops, fired every new gun and tried out every new tank as they arrived. His angular, inquisitive figure was by now familiar to all the units about to attack: the sist Highlanders, veterans of France, now about to get their first action against the Germans since their stand on the Somme in 1940, the desert-tried 50th Division, Aussies, South Africans, Fighting French, Greeks...
...title role which she first played in New York in 1924 and again in 1937, Katharine Cornell was this time much more human, much less conscious of her own radiance. Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing. As the angular Prossy, Mildred Natwick, concurrently giving eight performances a week as the comic medium in Blithe Spirit, reached her comic high in Candida. But best of all was Private Burgess Meredith who, on leave from the Army with only four days to rehearse in, became the only bearable Marchbanks that anyone could...
Unlike his two Congressional colleagues, lank, angular Hamilton Fish wants to stay in. Ham had hawked his brand of isolation ism far & wide; had worked hard against the President, against England; often, before Pearl Harbor, advocated a negotiated peace. Stepping out of Joachim von Ribbentrop's plane in 1939, Fish opined that Germany's claims were "just." Two months ago he finally went before a District Court to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, Nazi propaganda agent, and there let the blame fall on his secretary, George Hill, already in jail for perjury in the matter...