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...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
...intellectual and spiritual leader-stout, brisk, erudite, 59-year-old Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York. Son of an Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Temple was an Oxford don of philosophy at 23, a headmaster at 29, a bishop at 39, an archbishop at 47. A famed theologian and an ardent exponent of the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, he is likely to be first president of the still-organizing World Council of Churches. Said he at the conference...
...major productions to audiences of 30,300,000, of whom some 65% had never before seen a living actor at work. This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding up with a blast at the politicos who finally packed the whole huge show off to the storehouse...
...Last week the Chicago Opera was in the middle of its six-week season. This year's new angel and ardent publicizer: Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick of the Tribune. There were other novel ties. A chorus whose average age was 25 tickled Chicago eyes as well as ears. The Ballet Theatre, which earned huzzahs at its Manhattan debut last year, joined forces with the singers. Last fortnight a performance of Carmen got columns of publicity: in the last act 18 Chicago cops, led by Chief of Traffic Captain David Flynn, took turns appearing as Spanish dragoons riding nine police...
...ancient curse, this poverty in the midst of plenty. For the most ardent meeting-goer, unless he be a Superman or a Mandrake, has no choice but to go to the U.T. in utter despair...