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Indiana. Balding, bow-tied Republican Harold Willis Handley, 47, who was lieutenant governor when Archenemy George Craig held the statehouse reins, firmly took command of Indiana, called for "enlightened conservatism," sharply criticized federal aid to education ("The Hoosier will not tolerate nationalization of his schools"). Basking in Handley's new glow: Indiana's anti-Craig Senator William Jenner, who gave Handley a couple of helpful hands to office...
...played General Kutuzov with sinewy dignity. High point of the opera came in one of the closing scenes, in which Andrey and Natasha were reunited as Andrey lay on his deathbed. Through his delirium he hears a pulsing beat, played in the orchestra by the strings sul ponticello (bow strokes near the bridge), and echoes it over and over again in a faint, falling cry. In one of Prokofiev's most dramatic musical inventions, the orchestra announces Andrey's approaching death-a scene that ranks among the greatest ever written for opera...
...Divorced. By Sheilah Graham, aging (fiftyish) blonde Hollywood gossipist, onetime London chorus girl and great and good friend of the late Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wojciechowicz Stanley ("Bow Wow") Wojtkiewicz, 40, sometime athletic director; after four years of marriage, one of separation, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...intoxicated the '20s with The Plastic Age, a near-beer novel of college loose life compounded of watered-down Freud and hoked-up Fitzgerald; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn. Novelist Marks quit teaching after his book got banned in Boston (1924), became a bestseller and a Clara Bow film. He later wrote several lukewarm potboilers and a few textbooks, eventually drifted back to English teaching. Embers from the red hot prose that set the Jazz Age afire: "The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound-pounding a terrible tom-tom, the saxophones moaning and wailing...
...Wonder What Became of Me (Anita Ellis; Epic LP). A progression of songs threaded on a first-person narrative. Songstress Ellis pretends to recall her childhood, lisps her way through If I Had a Ribbon Bow, works her way through giddy happiness (I Ain't Got No Shame), through fierce, frightening love (I Love You Porgy), and on to final, hopeless reflections about her life in the title song. Songstress Ellis has a flexible voice, a flair for drama, sings well, puts the fantasy across handily...