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...greatly wanted to write. He had heard a tough first-night audience salute it, time & again, with excited applause. He had been informed by some of the critics that Allegro was "perfect," "a work of rare distinction," something that "made history on Broadway" (the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it a thing of "great beauty and purity [which] just missed the final splendor of a perfect work of art"). And Author Hammerstein had been informed by the box office that his show had a record advance take of $750,000 in the till. The talk of Broadway for long...
David M. Hollister '51 as John of Lancaster; Robert E. Rockman '46 as Earl of Westmoreland; Richard Atkinson as Sir Walter Blunt; Timothy G. Foote '50 as Mortimer; Donald H. Kaplan '51 as Earl of Douglas; Robert Clafiin '50 as Owen Glendower; Charles Sedgwick 2G as Vernon; Anthony A. Piano '47 as Poins...
...Oriana Atkinson liked the Russians enormously, admired their unfailing kindness as hosts, was touched by their uncomplaining acceptance of endless labor for pathetic rewards. In other ways, too, her reactions were typical of U.S. visitors to Moscow. She was annoyed by the sloppy workmanship everywhere, by the suffocating snarls of red tape, by one-party ballots which made elections a farce, by the fear of ordinary citizens to speak without looking over their shoulders. She saw prostitutes solicit openly (the Soviet Government proudly claims that it has ended prostitution in Russia), found beggars everywhere, watched black-marketeers operating in public...
Submission with Good Grace. Mrs. Atkinson found the Russians firmly behind their rulers: "I never met a Russian who really doubted the wisdom of the men at the head of their Government nor their purity of motive nor their ultimate success. I never met an American with any knowledge of Russian politics who thought that the headmen of the Russian Government were crooked." Of course, the Russians she met did not include the many (close to 10 to 15 million, her correspondent-husband estimates) in Government prisons and conscript labor camps...
...Atkinson vaguely hopes that...