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But even with the noise and nonsense of Kilty's syphon squirting and the hilarious performance of Thayer David as Sir Andrew Aguecheck, the production has more substance than the usual farce. Donald Stevens is a thoughtful and detached clown. While Robert Fletcher's griping, prissy interpretation of Malvolio excludes...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

Floating Cloud. The Order of the Mystic Shrine, sometimes called Masonry's "playground,"† is a kind of detached and whimsical cloud floating somewhere above Masonry's topmost branches. Its members must all be 32nd degree Masons or Knights Templar. It was started about 1870 by William Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Five single and six semi-detached houses form the balance of the development will be completed about February 15, 1950.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Botanic Garden House Opens Nov. 1 | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

"Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in An Apology for Idlers. "He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return." Many a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take It Easy | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Charles Norman pretty certainly knew the kind of people he has written about in this, his first, novel. At 44, and New York born-&-raised, he has produced six small volumes of poetry himself. The Well of the Past is a gently idealized version of the Manhattan '20s; yet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Idyll | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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