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...night last week Broadway and half Manhattan blacked out -from Greenwich Village to Harlem. The greatest concentration of light in all the world blinked out. Suddenly dark were the marquees and façades of Roseland, Lindy's, the Paramount, the Astor; dark were the skyhigh signs. Out went the New York Times's electric bulletins -as though time itself had quit on Broadway. The only light a plane could see came from a pale "bomber's" moon, touching the skyscraper towers and silvering the rivers. Crowds in Times Square watched the phenomenon, dumbstruck. Broadway...
...book of brave deeds along the front and behind both lines-farmers weeping with outraged peasant piety as they destroy their crops; the obscure, invaluable labors of guerrilla warriors and of the ten million who form the labor battalions of the People's Army; the structure and façade of an entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting of party journalists, The Voice of Fighting Russia is a sort...
...First to be singled out for experiment was Coventry, whose City Architect Donald Edward Evelyn Gibson has produced a set of plans. Last week some of his sketches (see cuts) arrived in the U.S. To disciples of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, Architect Gibson's classic-revival façades and pseudo-Roman columns looked disappointingly conservative. But he had laid out his future Coventry on spacious, parklike lines, put huge squares and fountains where crowded slums and shopping districts once knotted Coventry's busy traffic...
Composer Walton has lived with the celebrated, long-faced Sitwell family; to Sister Edith's verses he wrote Faç;ade, his best-known, though least profound, orchestral work. Driving an ambulance, which William Walton has been doing for more than a year, kept him from hearing the world premiere of his violin concerto, written for Jascha Heifetz and played in Cleveland in December 1939. Fortnight ago, his job kept him from another first performance: his Scapino, a Comedy Overture, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony as part of its 50th-anniversary celebration...
...physical city tamed too. Gothic extravagance yielded to gracious Georgian façades; Disraeli snorted over London's architectural insipidity. The criminals, the riffraff and the poor were vital; the rest of the nation was one sallow hunk of middle-class mutton. Where berserk bulls had once been a traffic problem, "scorchers" on bicycles were called a public menace. The last gold sovereigns of England sang on the counters of World War I. Most revealing of all was the history of city lighting: after centuries of blackness, a slow, fuliginous dawn of lanterns and dim cressets, then mirrored lamps...