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...matronly Bess Truman the week brought two minor troubles and one triumph...
...being as high-spirited as it is slaphappy, Memphis Bound adds up to an agreeable evening. For one thing, it has Bill Robinson at 67 tapping superbly, still doing his famous staircase dance effortlessly, and more of a personality than ever, It also has Avon Long (Porgy & Bess) who darts and dances like a salamander with a sense of style. It has attractive girls, gay and colorful sets, brilliantly gaudy costumes, hot dance routines. There is plenty of fizz in Memphis Bound, but it ought to be better bottled...
...rate, the way things are now the peanut-galleryites will have the breaks, if they keep Queen Bess and the Globe Theatre in mind, and the people in the orchestra will be peasants, even if they won't have to stand...
...Bess Truman had found the living quarters freshened up by painters and carpenters. On moving day there was little commotion. Daughter Mary Margaret's piano was hoisted to the second-floor living room, but most of the Truman furniture had been sent ta Independence, Mo. Mrs. Truman's mother, Mrs. D. W. Wallace of Independence, was there to help with the settling down...
...Bess Truman stepped up to the honorary presidency of the Girl Scouts of America as Eleanor Roosevelt-joining...