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...Archbishop of Reins and Thayer David as the Inquisitor went beyond the realms of skill in the two roles which more than any other express the religious-philosophical outlook of Shaw in the play. Mendy Weisgal was perfect as the pathetic Dauphin, from his neglected yellow robes to the fifteenth century hair style he had summoned for the occasion. H. M. Temple set the pace for the rest of the cast with a superbly stylish performance as de Baudricourt in the opening scene, and William A. West and Joe Everingham deserve mention for their smooth renditions of the parts...
...take care of only one-fifteenth of the world's population and one-nineteenth of the world area. This means that while your national income per capita is approximately $1,117, the average income of almost two billion other people is only $30 per capita. A steady yearly increase in the present world income, more equitably distributed and diffused, would . . . assist in the consolidation of democracy and the prosperity of all countries...
Spreading themselves beyond the realm of Greater Boston, '01 and '26 reunions will center around the Cliff Hotel at Scituate, while '31 will go as far afield as Poland Spring, Maine, for its fifteenth. Members of '31 left yesterday noon on special cars of the "Flying Yankee"; they will return tomorrow in time for the baseball game...
...Fifteenth Century Venice stood out of the Adriatic in a blaze of gold, ultramarine and many-colored marble. There Giovanni Bellini grew up, amidst a half-Oriental riot of clear colors. Scores of carved and painted ships furled their emblazoned sails at the city's steps. Indoors, Byzantine mosaics shattered the streaming white light into stabs of dandelion yellow, blood, emerald, and midnight blue. Paintings glistened with the burnished metals and translucent glazes evolved by Pisanello and Gentile da Fabriano...
...taken to changing street names at the slightest provocation. Some of Odessa's streets now had three or four names, and not even the militia (police) knew its way about. The militia itself had sinned. It had changed the name of Troitskaya (Trinity) Street to "Street of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Toilers' and Peasants' Militia...