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Among the period pieces that Menke's ten players have gagged up for the urban taste: The Drunkard, The Hat fields and the McCoys, Brother Against Brother, East Lynne, The Lure of the City. Recent audiences have been somewhat taken aback because 16-year-old Jack Fletcher, who performs as Hamlet, tries to play the role without gags. "Sometimes," he says, "I have to cut some of the soliloquies short to save my neck...
...Smith of Gloucester, Mass., who has been a TIME subscriber from the first issue, took exception to a remark in our July 4 cover story on Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Los Angeles. We said that Los Angeles lands more fish than Boston or Gloucester. Mr. Smith thought the statement irrelevant. He maintained that quality, not quantity, was the true measure, and that there were no fish worth eating in the Pacific anyway. Otherwise, he found the story first-rate...
...underbrush. The health message, tacked on by Upjohn: BREEDING PLACES FOR SNEEZES-WHEEZES. Earl Kerkam had painted a lugubrious gentleman, tired and mistrustful. Upjohn had labeled it, HAVE YOU LEARNED TO LIVE WTH A STOMACH ULCER? A painting by Alexander James was captioned SKIN TROUBLE IN MEN AND WOMEN. Fletcher Martin's painting of a lovely, pearly-skinned girl was titled ANEMIA...
TIME . . . really hit the nail square on the head in its description of Mayor Fletcher Bowron. He is all you say he is, and not much more...
...also paid off wiretapping Sergeant Stoker to the tune of $100 a week. Although they denied it, Sergeants Stoker and Jackson, along with six other cops, were shifted to the sticks. But that didn't stop the hue & cry. Last week Police Chief Horrall, whom honest Mayor Fletcher Bowron has frequently praised as the best police chief to be found anywhere, retired. As his successor Mayor Bowron picked a man whom he thought even Brenda couldn't faze: Major General William A. Worton, who served as chief of staff of the Marines' III Amphibious Corps at Okinawa...