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schools. Last week Dr. Hildebrand issued his own minority report on why he thinks the conference was a flop...
...Matchmaker (by Thornton Wilder) by another name did not smell anything like so sweet. As The Merchant of Yonkers-a rewrite of a century-old Viennese farce-it was pretty much of a flop when produced on Broadway in 1938. But as further rewritten by Playwright Wilder and lustily staged by Tyrone Guthrie, what once merely clattered now careens, what formerly sputtered now explodes...
...Joans of Katharine Cornell (1936), of Ingrid Bergman (1946) and of Uta Hagen (1951). Could Julie top them? The auguries had been uncertain. "Joan of Arc was put into history," one critic had said grandly, "so that Julie Harris could play the part." However, the play had proved a flop in London with another Joan, and the table talk at Sardi's had it that Julie "hasn't got the diaphragm for these big things, you know...
...spend that it wields a potent influence on Italy's press and among its politicians. In the development field, it has expanded Italy's production of methane to almost 100 times the prewar total, a noteworthy achievement. But as sn oil producer, E.N.I, has been a bungling flop. Where it has bored only dry holes and left, private explorers later found oil; so far, E.N.I, has raised only one gusher-in the promising Abruzzi area-and that by edging up close and spudding into a pool found months before by a private U.S.-Italian company...
Only slightly less decorous characters are the boys of the Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...