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...blacksmithing class, the teacher watched one Hawaiian boy vigorously whaling away at cold metal. Then he asked: "Why don't you heat it, Joe?" Replied exhausted, exasperated Joe: "Heet it? I heet it so hard, I bust...
Mourning Becomes Electra (produced on Broadway in 1931) was never a great play-let alone a great Greek play. But it is a play that hankers after greatness (and Greekness) like a schoolgirl with a crush on a bust of Aeschylus. By attempting to dramatize the Oedipus complex on a framework of Greek drama, O'Neill produced a travesty of Freudian thought and something like a parody of Greek tragedy...
...Boom-&-bust should be controlled by lowering tax rates, easing credit controls, starting public works (under private contract) whenever unemployment reaches 6% of the total labor force; when unemployment drops back to 4%, the process should be reversed. Another Stassen weapon: "Officially encouraged voluntary boycotts" against excessively high prices...
...family-circle lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House. In a flurry of bulb-popping, the late great tenor's widow, Mrs. Dorothy Caruso (who had two unhappy marriages after Caruso's death, resumed the name of her devoted "Rico" after each divorce), presented a heroically scowling bust of the tenor, flanked by four full-blown little nymphs, to the Met's General Manager Edward Johnson...
...Leon Shamroy's camera gives Amber a highly appetizing protective Technicoloration that dotes with equal affection on furniture and flesh, brazen sconce and brazen bust...