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Bayreuth's Wagner. By comparison with Salzburg's blaze, Bayreuth was authoritative but monochromatic. The latest style for Wagnerian opera, as set by the composer's grandsons Wieland and Wolf gang Wagner (TIME, Aug. 13, 1951, et seq. features a stage in semidarkness, moonlit landscapes, symmetrical crowd scenes and stark emphasis on the polarities of heaven and earth, man and woman, light and darkness, life and death. With their productions of all of Wagner's major works unveiled in previous seasons, the producers this time tried their hand at the youthful but never completely successful Flying...
...mechanical difficulties of tracing a phone call. The fate of the trapped man oddly becomes less important than the technical riddles that must be solved in determining from what exchange, and in precisely what sequence of numerals, the kidnaper is phoning his instructions. The film ends in the customary blaze of guns, and Kelly is happily reunited with his family. But the film's considerable effect, like that of Dragnet, is built up largely from the detailed, absorbing explanation of the routines, not in this case of police work, but of a telephone-communications center...
Graves has done nothing to change the face of poetry, has never been hailed either as a revolutionary or a representative poet of his generation. He is of no party, no clique, no decade of time. The impression made by his poems is not of a blaze of fireworks but of a white-hot center. At his least impressive, he is spare and dry; at his peak, his closest neighbors are the lyricists of ancient Greece. Where lesser poets exalt or complain lustily, Graves writes like one who is in perpetual mourning but is also far too proud to take...
Harvard's most sensational fire broke out immediately after vacation that January when a three-alarm blaze completely destroyed the Soldiers Field Licker Building before a crowd of 4,500. The loss meant almost nothing to College athletes, however, since Clarence Dillon '05 had already offered the University a sum large enough to build a new and adequate building. Little attempt was made to determine the cause of the $125,000 fire after Dillon phoned the University the next day and urged that the new structure be started immediately...
...soon. Gwen's telephone these days is ajangle with fancy long-term contract offers which she is in no hurry to sign. "I don't want to get lost," says the new star, whose incendiary head and flaming personality are nightly adding new sparks to the blaze of Broadway...