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While Schuyler's play illustrates the danger of triteness, The Man Who Walked in a Ray of Sunshine, translated by Roger Shattuck from the French verse of Rene Char, shows how an interesting idea can be obscured by too conscious a striving for economy. Set at the gates of Heaven, the play concerns a cocky young man who dances to seduce an angel sent to judge whether he is worthy of admission. He fails; she dances away and lets him fall, and a jury of humans, sitting outside the gates, exits in disgust at the rejection of its fair-haired...
Fireproof Paint. A fire-retarding paint that can be used for home decorating has been put on sale by Glidden Co. Intense heat makes the paint swell and char, forming an incombustible protective blanket. Price: $7.95 a gallon in white, $8.35 in black and colors...
...story about a British hill station in northern India has a familiar set of char acters: the new officer (Power), the commander's daughter (Terry Moore), and her father (Michael Rennie), who refuses consent-in this case because Ty is a half-caste. "Don't you mind when people behave the way they do?" pouts Actress Moore, an ingenue who seems continually worried by the complexity of her lines. "I mind, but I hope for the best. The world's still young," replies Actor Power, managing to look a little like Nehru and John Barrymore...
Roof Saver. To cut down losses such as occurred at General Motors Livonia plant fire (TIME, Aug. 24), Cleveland's Lexsuco, Inc. brought out a vinyl plastic roofing material, which will char, but not burn. The plastic replaces layers of felt, stuck together with asphalt, which separate the roof deck from its insulation. It was the melting asphalt that intensified the fire at Livonia when it fell into the flames. Cost is no higher than standard roof construction. First customer: Ford Motor Co., for an addition to its Cleveland engine plant...
...traditional flannel suit is fighting a desperate last-ditch battle to retain its preeminence in the field. Gray flannel seems to be definitely losing favor and the manufacturers have introduced a new color--"char-brown"--which they hope may help them steal a march on the rest of the garment industry. If the color gimmick falls, merchants say, the flannel regime may well be coming...