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...figures made it look as if a sizable dent had been made in the housing shortage. But outside of statistics-minded Washington, the hopes of ordinary people to get the kind of place they want to live in were far down. In Manhattan, Communist-line Michael Quill, head of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union, saw his chance to create unrest and political capital. He urged veterans to squat in boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansions, as the Commies had done in London...
...Marriage of Figure," which will be produced by the group in the Edward Dent translation, opens the season and will introduce to Boston a new, or Goldovsky, method of direction. The theory is that opera is primarily theatrical. Corollary one states that you cannot give convincing performances of an opera in a language which the east does not understand. Corollary two demonstrates that singers must be able to do more than get their notes right--though this is considered important. As a result, less attention is paid to the conductor and more to the score...
...from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said simply: "We have seen the birth of a great tragic actress...
...battleships Nevada and Arkansas, and the less-proud Japanese relic Nagatoa, all with blackened paint, twisted upper works, and assorted injuries. Most remarkable, perhaps, was a three-foot dent in the armored afterdeck of the Nevada, as though a cosmic giant had set his boot there...
Thus last week spoke Canada's most disgruntled and disillusioned war bride, 40-year-old Mrs. Hermine Dent, British Guiana-born wife of a Canadian Army sergeant. She had been ready to make concessions, she said at her Timmons, Ont. home. She had tolerated: 1) filthy towns, 2) unsociable people, 3) unsavory food, 4) dreary houses. But she drew the line at the cold. Now she was quitting Canada and Husband Dent to go back to balmy Guiana. Asked a newsman: "Don't you like anything about Canada?" Said Mrs. Dent...