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...gentleman pictured by TIME [Dec. 31] as Maurice Hutcheson, son and successor to the president of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, is actually Martin Ashton Hutchinson, Richmond lawyer and leading opponent of Virginia's Byrd Machine...
...Died. Ashton Stevens, 78, dean of American theater critics, for 54 years a drama man for Hearst newspapers in New York, San Francisco and Chicago (40 years on the Herald-American and predecessors); of a coronary occlusion; in Chicago. A mild-mannered, rarely caustic critic, he once defined his aim: "To be right if possible; to be read, if possibler...
...Louise Licklider, the acting of our hostess is a disappointment. Amateurish and typed seems a fair description also of the efforts of William Siebert as a Duke. The best acting in the play was done by Edward Sostek who did a fine portrayal of a henpecked hunted man. Norman Ashton's direction is also effective...
...Davis of the Divinity School is registered as W1JLW. James C. Hirschman '52, the present president of the club runs station W9UQD from his room in Adams C-54, while Hampton operates from Dunster under the call of W1SWQ. The only mobile set is operated by John F. Ashton '51 of Leverett, who is active in civilian defense work...
...Offenbach's familiar score. Robert Rounseville, as Hoffman, has a strong, clear voice that is excellent for the role. Most of the other voices are dubbed in, however, with generally good results. The dancing in "Tales of Hoffmann" is all good, but it suffers by being fragmented; Frederick Ashton's choreography consists chiefly of short interludes, beautifully danced by Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Ludmilla Tcherina, Robert Helpmann, and the Sadler's Wells Chorus. Miss Shearer's best work is shown in the "Dragonfly Ballet" of the prologue, and in the automaton's dance of Act I. Helpmann appears successively...