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This week the safety hysteria reached a new pitch with the action of traffic officials in Westchester County, New York. In order better to propagate their gospel, they to make a short speech to each motorist as he drove up to the play booth. As they took the dime, they were to say, "This is president Eisenhower's safe driving day, so please be careful...
Some 320 students made contributions of fifty cents or one dollar each at the drive booth in front of the Coop. Fifty cents will ship 14 pounds of food abroad, while one dollar will feed a family for one month...
...Valentine do not have charm and, indeed, are almost loathsome is not a disaster. But Miss Irra Petina, the show's leading lady, is likewise unblessed. Along with her strong voice, Miss Petina projects a chill which seems to come right from the heart. Although even a Shirley Booth couldn't salvage On With the Show, Miss Petina estranges the audience just a bit further. Her co-star, Robert Wright, plays a Nevada banker who is financing the stars of a stranded opera company. He sets Miss Petina up in a beauty emporium, falls in love with her, and--worst...
Much of this wasted time and confusion could be eliminated if concession owners would set up large signs advertising the wares in each booth. And if more peddlers roamed the seating area, many students would not have to make the trip below at all. Concession-owners argue, however, that not enough students are available for the extra selling. But they have made little attempt to recruit available workers from local high schools. In addition, wage increase might attract many applicants who have justifiably told the Student Employment Office that...
...avoid the "made-up" praise of critics who have long since become bored with the theatre Although he would deny it, his work in these instances seems to disagree simply for the sake of disagreeing, to smash idols on slender pretexts from motives of sheer perversity. He scorns Shirley Booth, for instance, because she is a "common-man" actress who makes love to the public by portraying the common level. For Bentley, the relationship between Miss Booth and her audience is purely erotic...