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...John Gielgud, Maurice Evans, John Barrymore). As a change of pace, Ferrer promises readings from Shakespeare's sonnetts by Gielgud, Basil Rathbone, Dame Edith Evans, as well as his own interpretations of roles from Othello and Romeo and Juliet. To close his lively half-hour with a Shakespearean flourish, Puerto Rican-born Actor Ferrer took some liberties with lines from Richard...
Without introduction or flourish, Little David himself suddenly appeared on the platform. Scrubbed and neat in a light gray suit, he looked more like an Eagle Scout than an evangelist. But he was up to fever heat in a few minutes and began screaming out passages from Matthew about the end of the world...
...fervently for government and industry support of pure science, which he suggests is quite continuous with applied science, the two being merely opposite ends of the same spectrum. He finds the university the logical home for pure science, for only in an atmosphere of freedom is it likely to flourish...
...third new production of the season, he resurrected that bubbly old favorite, Die Fledermaus, of Johann Strauss (the Younger), which had not been heard at the Met since 1905. As he had with Verdi's Don Carlo (TIME, Nov. 13), Bing rechristened it with just the right flourish by enlisting some bright new help imported from Broadway for the occasion...
...confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing the Witchcraft...