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...mother had just died. A substitute chorus was ill-prepared, and a pinch-hitting baritone had to fall back on 01' Man River. So the U.S. debut last week of a talented Negro conductor, Rudolph Dunbar, 39, was a grim experience for everyone but him. Critics praised his crisp, authoritative conducting of the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra...
...KEEP IT CRISP (272 pp.)-S. J. Perelman-Random House...
...seems as if the action and dialogue might move towards some unity, and then the cameral swings back to the spectacle of a thousand exotic extras milling in the shadow of a fabulous temple. The development of Caesar, the materialist with an idealistic end, comes in snatches of crisp Shavian dialogue, but the entire effect is uneven and erratic. As the Roman conqueror, Claude Rains is excellent. He plays his part with intelligence and a calmness unmoved by the grandeur about him. Vivian Leigh is an effective contrast as Cleopatra, the girlish queen. Flora Robson, as Ftatateeta, a weird combination...
...nova-like flare-up of the sun might happen tomorrow." If it did, the sunny side of the earth would be burned to a crisp in half an hour, the oceans would boil away in live steam. Within a few days the world would be vapor...
...week marched one of the smartest, toughest fighting units the U.S. had ever sent to the battlefield. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team-all Nisei except for a sprinkling of officers-was home from the wars. On the rain-soaked Ellipse adjoining the White House, the wiry little soldiers, their crisp khaki crumpling to a soggy brown, stood rigidly at attention while President Truman fixed the Presidential Unit Citation banner to the regimental colors...