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Within Stillman Infirmary's ironclad confines, Miss Morency and Miss O'Donnell, now working off their two-year shift as night nurses, say they would just as soon change sheets by candlelight, since it gives them much time to get outdoors during the day. Many nurses do night duty while they are attending school during the days...
Frescoes by Candlelight. For nearly 2,000 years, artists have followed the Wise Men to Bethlehem, bringing gifts to celebrate the birth of God as man. The quality of their gifts has depended as much on their times as on themselves, and what they brought was sometimes meaningful, sometimes beautiful, but not always both together. If the early Christians who painted frescoes by candlelight in the catacombs of Rome had not sufficient skill to match the underground fire of their faith, Raphael, who worked with consummate grace for a triumphant Church, lacked their pent force...
This year, for Salzburg's third postwar festival, something new had been added. There was still Mozart nachtmusik by candlelight under the stars, and a performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But the big news was Danton's Death, composed by young (28) Gottfried von Einem, Austria's newest claim to musical fame. Einem had set to music Georg Büchner's 1834 drama of the French Revolution: he was inspired, he said, by the plot on Hitler's life, and the Nürnberg trials. Einem and his father, trying to escape...
...toddled out to sing Constantinople. By the time she was 14, father had a dance band and she became its featured singer. After the war, securely established as England's top singer of softly swung ballads, she got a key BBC show of her own, called "Beryl by Candlelight." Even by candlelight, Beryl could see that U.S. pastures were greener...
Less vigorous recreation is to be had at the frequent House dances which have included late afternoon "Candlelight" affairs. Even less strenuous, according to the men who know, are the elbow-bending motions required to consume the bear offered "on the House" at periodic smokers...