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Maugham tells of a young Englishman, smashed up for life in a plane accident, whose devoted wife and brother have fallen passionately in love and are having an affair. The hopeless cripple providentially dies-only for the nurse suddenly to insist that he was murdered. The rest of the play, while tracking down the not very elusive killer, seeks to justify both the adultery and (as it happens) the mercy killing...
...production next year, although he is willing to buy a couple to test on the New York-Puerto Rico run. Rickenbacker wanted De Havilland to jump ahead to the 60-to-75-passenger Comet III, whose prototype has not yet even been built. Said Rickenbacker: "If I were an Englishman, I would work day and night-including weekends-to keep the advantage they have." De Havilland's reply: it cannot boost commercial production and meet its rearmament quotas. Then, said Rickenbacker, it ought to license a U.S. maker who can mass-produce the Comet III. Echoed London...
Lieut. Colonel Lewis Ellis, assistant U.S. air attaché, caught a well-dressed Briton at work on his 1950 Buick. But when he got near, the colonel saw that the Englishman was scrubbing the car clean and had already scrubbed several others. "I was so mad when I saw what the Communists had done," he explained, "that I went straight out and bought a tin of paint remover...
...each nation in good standing, so that delegates heard representative new music from each nation, if not always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even the radicals. One of the more conservative was reminded...
...anybody in Canterbury's highly impressed audience of 500 had seen the girls a few hours earlier, the disciplined performance might have seemed even more impressive. Instead of a raptly dedicated chorus, an Englishman would have seen a crowd of average-looking American girls (with names like Foy, Gallaudet, Zuromskis, Lutov, Pierson, Schmidt, Saltonstall) scuffling their low-heeled shoes, swinging their shoulder bags, gaping at the sights...