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...younger classes, '42 promises to steal the show at the parade with its green cardboard top hat and green necktie combination. Carrying balloons and lollypops, the squad, whose hats will have red bands, expects to wear white and khaki short pants. Yesterday's opener of the Sixth Reunion was spent at the Essex County Club in Manchester, with sports in the afternoon and dinner at 7 o'clock. Class members will attend Memorial Church at 11 o'clock today and a buffet luncheon including wives has been slated for 1 o'clock...
...flower of Red womanhood assembled in Rome last week. Theirs was the semi-annual executive meeting of the Women's International Democratic Federation, a Communist front formed three years ago to the battle cry: "Women of the world, unite!" Beneath two white cardboard doves, 31 ladies representing 52 nations met to compare notes on women's rights. Another chief purpose: to prepare a campaign against warmongers in the U.S., Britain and "the countries which dance to their tune...
...Communists held their last big rally before the ancient Church of Saint John Lateran. From a ten-ton truck decorated with cardboard doves of peace, Palmiro Togliatti spoke to 100,000 Romans. Said he: Alcide de Gasperi had called him a cloven-hoofed man, and he had a good mind to take off his shoe to show that this was a lie. "But it is better to put hobnails in the shoe and kick De Gasperi...
Playwright Franken has a pretty good eye for all the detail of middle-class family life-the rich son, the poor son; the huffiness and stuffiness; the furnishings and food. But anything in The Hallams that isn't made of velvet or mahogany seems made of cardboard. Whenever the play abandons the household for the heart, whenever it exchanges class or clan reactions for personal emotions, it becomes feeble, trite or depressingly empty...
...Senator's Daughter. Meanwhile, at the barn the show went on. The actors looked magnificent in their red robes and cardboard helmets. Who cared if now & then they glanced at the scripts in their hands? The play concerned a Roman senator who is to make a speech in favor of the Christians. Pagan priests kidnap the senator's daughter (played by Riofreddo's only blonde). Caffari, the bootmaker, playing the senator's role, lifted trembling hands to heaven. Said he: "Though my daughter shall suffer, I will do my duty and speak! I am a Christian...