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...happy day for Harold Jesse Berney when he ran into Pauline Goebel in Washington, D.C. six years ago. Happy for Pauline, too. Berney told the fascinated Miss Goebel that he was a manufacturer of TV antennas, and was about to embark upon the production of a revolutionary device called the "Modulator." Wide-eyed, Pauline listened to Harold's story-and a real whopper it was. Harold had been in touch with officials of the planet Venus. Matter of fact, he had visited Venus in a flying saucer. And after two wonderful visits with his Venutian hosts...
President & Pleasant. Last October Harold decided it was about time to go back to Venus on business. A month later Berney's wife got some bad news in Washington. From Eagle Pass, Texas came a package containing some of Harold's personal effects and $300 in cash. With this was a letter from a Mr. Ucellus, of Venus. Harold, wrote Mr. Ucellus sorrowfully, had died on Venus. Pauline got the word, and she was worried. She wrote a letter to the President on the assumption that only high-ranking U.S. officials knew of the Modulator. Ike never replied...
Then, surprisingly enough, Harold himself wrote a letter to his wife. Apparently a funny thing had happened after he died: those ingenious Venutians had brought him back to life. Harold said that he would write again soon. Mrs. Berney was skeptical. Pauline began to wonder. Pleasant McCarty began to wonder. The Federal Bureau of Investigation heard of the business, and it began to wonder...
There were meetings, too. Basso Berney Simmer, 51, of St. Louis, a district manager for Acme Visible Records, Inc. (business files), was elected president of the organization. Most important of all were the contests. Beginning with semifinals, in which 40 quartets and 22 choruses participated, the convention ended with a wall-rocking sing-off for the quartet Medalist prize. In Constitution Hall (dubbed Harmony Hall for the occasion) the big finals began with a Wichita, Kans. group called the Orphans. Dressed in blue tailored coats and pants and red bow ties, the quartet sang a smooth When the Bell...
Above all, the script is craftsmanlike, and director Ella Gerber has given it a craftsmanlike production. Stewart Chancy's set is sturdily Elizabethan, and is well suited to the play, Playwrights Berney and Richardson have not written poetry, but a piece of good prose like "Design for a Stained Glass Window" is always welcome...