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...Arab Prince Feisal with obvious and engaging contempt for the whole business, can sweeten the arid piles of camel dung in which he is trapped. It is also good to see Claude Rains back in North Africa, still, as ever, the mysterious servant of a corrupt colonial power. But ditto...
...there is a new note of peevishness. Herewith, a list, probably incomplete, of Saroyan's pet hates: actors, Sherwood Anderson (in his later years), bankers, Bernard Baruch, bestsellers, great men, school principals, insurance policyholders, lawyers, Mount Rushmore, New Yorkers, playwrights (Saroyan excluded), psychiatrists, Shakespeare (not altogether), Shaw (ditto), tapioca, teachers, the world...
William Jacobson's direction shows that he knows his business. Ditto for John Dudley's musical direction and Christina Wilhelm's choreography. But something--perhaps opening night jitters--seemed to throw every-one off a bit. The girls grind grandly but they never quite bump with the orchestra's beat; a group of swaying subway riders slowly splits into two groups swaying in opposite directions--and not even a BMT car can produce that effect...
Tournament of Roses Parade (NBC, 11:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m.). Ditto, in color after...
Failing to secure reprieve in this direction, slighted lacrossemen (and others) might go back to the H.A.A. extravagance. It is reported, for example, that every member of the hockey squad receives a free pair of skates from the H.A.A., that tennis players get two free racquets apiece (ditto squash players and racquets), and that the H.A.A. pays three men overtime wages to collect blocking dummies from Soldiers Field after football practice everyday...