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Arabella is basically an old-fashioned Viennese operetta-the sort that Johann Strauss really did much better than Richard†-without the courage of its corn. In Arabella, the waltz and schmaltz have been refined and intellectualized. Composer Strauss wrote this score in the tragically arid last third of his life, and he filled it with hints and quotations reflecting other works. His hand had lost none of its craft, and all the score lacks is inspiration. The Met postured prettily in its new hat; actually, Arabella was just an old toque...
...Harry Carey Jr.). ^ There is plenty of competent acting in Gray Line, by such regulars as Power, O'Hara, Donald Crisp and Ward Bond, and a few laughs, too. Mostly, though, there are too many attempts to drive the Point home with a mixture of weeping and corn...
...favor of a buildup of heavy industry. He even found himself praising the U.S. to make a point. Khrushchev is impressed by the way "Americans have succeeded in achieving a high level of animal husbandry." The answer for Soviet Russia, he said, is the widespread U.S. planting of hybrid corn for fodder. Khrushchev urged that collectives in European Russia should plant U.S. hybrid corn, and demanded an eightfold increase in Soviet corn production by 1960. That will take some doing...
...plague the auto industry. A rumor, apparently planted by the union, that both G.M. and Ford would settle for some sort of guaranteed annual wage before negotiations start, was spread by such scattered sources as Columnist Drew Pearson, Gossipist Leonard Lyons and the newsletter of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank. The rumor was vehemently denied by management, and G.M.'s Labor Negotiator Harry Anderson even hustled to Manhattan to straighten out the bank...
Tennessee. The nation's youngest (34) governor, Frank Clement,* a onetime FBI agent and part-time lay preacher, ran up a good record in his first two years and has a good program ready for his new four-year term. Spellbinding Corn-Shuck-er Clement, re-elected with the state's biggest vote, hopes for a chance to make the keynote speech at the 1956 Democratic convention. He figures he can talk himself into the vice-presidency, at least...