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...hours. But Sketch Writers Comden & Green (On the Town) have really satiric minds, and at their best are very funny. Elliott Reid is funny, too, in a take-off of the Kefauver committee hearings. The music is all too thin, however; the dances are dullish, the production numbers mostly colorless. But thanks to its stars, a rather negligible revue still manages to be a very pleasant evening in the theater...
...past two years, the free world's picture of Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi has changed. The man who seemed at first a diligent but colorless politician has been disclosed as an anti-Communist statesman of impressive stature and strength. But as he succeeded in his fight against the Reds, and the Communist threat in Italy declined, the unity of his followers began to weaken...
...film by their life-like acting. But Mercedes McCambridge does the best job of all as the murderess. Her portrayal of a disappointed lover is one the audience can well sympathize with; in fact, this reviewer would have rejoiced to see her brutally strangle the heroine. Unfortunately, the colorless forces of good win out, and the show ends with the usual clinch...
...Real Independence. At Hanoi last week, Bao Dai colorlessly delivered a colorless speech stressing independence and announcing the formation of three new Vietnamese divisions. Meanwhile, the French and the Vietnamese, after months of haggling, had reached an agreement that as of January 1951 the Vietnamese would run their own treasury and their own customs service. But the French still lacked the will or the imagination to grant the Vietnamese anything that looked to them like real independence...
Houghton, Gates and Waugh worked out new designs by letting the pure colorless crystal* "do what the material wants to do." The designs, said Gates, fell esthetically "somewhere between the curves of the Taj Mahal and the straight lines of the Empire State Building." From time to time they called on such outside artists as Raoul Dufy, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Jean Hugo and Moise Kisling. Steuben never tried to figure out what the taste of customers might be. Says Houghton loftily: "We made taste." By 1935, Steuben taste had made Steuben a success...