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Before the yellow stucco house at No. 114 Rua 7 de Setembro in the dirty little town of Rio Casca in Minas Gerais State, some 8,000 people, a mosaic of the diseases of Brazil, had been softly singing the haunting hymn I Shall Be with My Mother. The faded grey shutters of the house swung open. A hush came over the malformed, the sick, the hopeful and the curious. One man fell on his knees. Behind him a weeping father supported a son on whose face was an idiot's grin...
...ENVIOUS CASCA-Georgette Heyer -Crime Club ($2). Variation on two familiar detective-story themes-the English-house -party-where - everybody-hates-his-neighbor, and the corpse-in-the-room-locked-from-the-inside. Pungent dialogue and A-1 characterization make up for certain small shortcomings in the plot...
Last spring Skipper Wheeler of the river packet Casca made a strange etching on the frozen surface of Lake La Berge, Yukon. With an old broom and buckets of refuse oil mixed with lampblack he drew a line 40 ft. wide across a 29-mi. stretch of the lake's surface...
...month his 29-mi. black ribbon cut down into the ice one foot. It continued to melt the ice away and the Casca sailed out some 30 days earlier than usual through a nicely defined channel...
...scene which brought Cassius and Brutus together, Mr. Winter improved the opportunity afforded him by acting one of the most effective incidents of the play with remarkable fire and naturalness. Mr. Roundy as Brutus was too declamatory in his delivery, and lacked naturalness in his action. Mr. Richardson as Casca took the opportunity in interrupting Cassius and Brutus to deliver one of the most peculiarly theatrical outbursts of the evening. He mouthed his words very badly, and spoke in a sepulchral tone worthy of the ghost of Caesar. While the acting of Mr. Jones as Brutus showed some lack...