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...August Strindberg. This juxtaposition is appropriate, because the stories are valuable both as entertainment and as psychological studies. One, the story of dust, is a bitter, sardonic chronicle of a marriage without love, and the other, that of love, is a delightfully pointed satire, of Ibsen's A Doll House...
...Doll's House provides a welcome relief to the grimness of On Payment. A pretty young woman, happily married to a naval officer, meets a militant suffragette during one of his long trips. Her husband comes home to find his wife cold and unresponsive, married to him without being his wife. He's soon back in the saddle, though, for she is enough of a wife to be jealous when he seduces the suffragette right before her eyes...
...free choice of posts in the new government, hoping to thus put out of business the "government" the Russians claim to be supporting. Souvanna dismissed his visitors as "a pathetic bunch of clowns" and went back to his gardening. "We have been a plaything of the big powers, a doll which has been broken," he said loftily. "It is up to the big powers to mend...
...most part, it was Daughter Caroline, just turned three, who got Jack Kennedy's nonpresidential attention and a lot of the photographers' as well. One unforgettable shot: the President-elect, emerging from church, unconcernedly hanging on to a rag doll. Brimming with Kennedy energy, Caroline scooted around everywhere, once squeezed through her father's legs to steal the scene from a Lyndon Johnson-Kennedy photo session. "Daddy," said she, "tie my shoes, please." Asked if she would call her baby brother "Jack," she replied: "No. His name is John." But soon Kennedy called a halt to most...
Among this year's new, bestselling toys: ¶Chatty Cathy, a 20-in., blue-eyed, freckle-faced doll that talks, made by Mattel. When a string on Cathy's back is pulled, she can say "Will you play with me? "Tell me a story," "PIease brush my hair," "I love you," or any of eleven different sentences in random sequence. List price...