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Whether ill or merely ill at ease, Powell meanwhile was consoling himself in Puerto Rico's sunshine. If he follows past practice, he will turn in a chit for Government reimbursement of his transportation costs...
Autumn Garden tackles a couple of big illusions, and its dialogue is never wasted chit-chat. Miss Hellman indicates that love has been over-advertised. In her work it never takes on mystical qualities or solves life's problems upon arrival. Similarly, talent by itself means little; accomplishment is a truer index. After a certain stage of the game, latent talent will not bloom and the magic turning points won't arrive. The author's technical refusal to base the play on a crisis situation is beautifully suited to this theme...
Sheer respect for Henrik Ibsen (even Ibsen at his worst), provided the momentum for last night's production at the Loeb. Director Caroline Cross persistently believed in the applicability of the play, and a good cast went far toward transforming grandiose chit-chat into drama...
...Tell Dick . . ." Last week, standing on a red-white-and-blue-bannered platform in his Los Angeles campaign headquarters, Goodie Knight named names and dates. Waving in his right hand a paper chit, Knight said it was a receipt for a $6.21 telephone call made on the morning of Sept. 8 from his room No. 108 in Sacramento's El Dorado Hotel. The call was to Los Angeles Banker J. Howard Edgerton, who had earlier tried and failed to reach Goodie by phone. According to Knight, the conversation went like this...
...past berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz of a motorboat, and the whine of a power saw biting into the big trees; the drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade...