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...chairman of the rally were Albert S. Bigelow, Massachusetts AVC Chairman, and Charles Cobb, recent Law School graduate, who heads the Cambridge chapter...
Yours Is My Heart (music by Franz Lehar; book and lyrics by Ira Cobb and Karl Farkas; produced by Arthur Spitz) brought famed singer Richard Tauber to Broadway. First produced in 1928, Yours Is My Heart might well have been produced much earlier-its music has a dated schmalz and lushness, its plot a dateless inanity, its humor a primordial ghastliness. Shifting from a tacky Paris to a chop-suey Peiping, its romance of a French opera singer (Stella Andreva) and a Chinese prince gets snarled in dramatic difficulties long before it bogs in dynastic ones. Out of the debris...
Hawk-nosed Novelist Vardis Fisher spends twelve hours a day working his farm in Idaho's Snake River country, four hours a night whipping out impassioned prose (Intimations of Eve, Children of God, etc.). But he is never too busy to argue. Five years ago Publisher Margaret Cobb Ailshie (TIME, Aug. 5) let contentious Vardis Fisher argue the case for isolationism in her interventionist Boise Idaho Statesman. Before she knew it, she had a new drawing card...
Irene Dunne is properly starchy as Anna, while Lee J. Cobb and Gale Sondergaard maintain a tone of reality as believable members of the royal household. But Rex the rex injects enough jaunty wit in 100 minutes to make up for years of freekle-faced 2nd lieutenants and monosyllabic bathing beauties. From a first knowing look down to an inspired performance vending napkins to emissaries of the western nations at the Bangkok version of a formal dinner, the picture is his. Thus it is that "Anna and The King of Siam" take their place as one of those rare pairs...
After watching Williams hit Rip Sewell's ephus ball last week, Manager Steve O'Neill of the Detroit Tigers said flatly: "I call him the best hitter the game has seen. That means he's superior to Ty Cobb." At week's end, the new Ted Williams looked it, hitting three homers and bringing in eight runs in one game against the Cleveland Indians...