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...village idiot of a small southern town. The inheritor of a vast estate, he grew to middle age without ever growing up. He spends his time playing with the local children, but some obscure loneliness finally drives him to marry a backwoods girl he picked up in a soda fountain. When the girl, who is even more childish than Ponder himself, dies under mysterious circumstances, he is indicted for murder. The trial provides tension for the plot...
Except for some indestructible old favorites, sentimental Viennese oldies are supplanted by mambos, boogie-woogie and other jazz. Teen-agers sit for hours, nursing their beers and feeding schillings to the mechanical monsters. Current hits: Three Coins in the Fountain, Ko Ko Mo and I Love Paris (in the springtime). There are those who deplore the jukebox (which is known as "Musikautomat") as further evidence that civilization is in schrecklich shape. But Vienna's present-day songwriters (not a Strauss among them) are jazzing up older tunes for jukebox use and, in the process, are demonstrating that they...
VIRGINIANS who turn out next week for the festivities at Richmond's 20-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will find themselves in an 18th-century garden, strolling past a decorative fountain and wandering among shrubs and period statuary. In a gallery at the end of a vine-covered arbor, they will find the museum's guest of honor and newest pride: a small, gold-framed 12¾-in.-by-9½-in. painting, Le Lorgneur or The Sidelong Glance (opposite), by famed 18th-century French Painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Filling the rest of the gallery will...
...King has invoked his father's stern Moslem laws to repress them. To Philby, who saw Ibn Saud's tribesmen sweep the deserts in their puritanical Wahhabi zeal and fury, this is the surest sign of the regime's decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with oil; and the mouths of the preachers and the prophets have been stopped with gold . . . Where virtue reigned on a scale which some may have thought exaggerated, wealth has become the only criterion of merit . . . The common thief still forfeits his hand...
Today, not as many people know about her, but the Museum will remain as a testimony to the influence of her personality of Boston, for in her will, Mrs. Jack insisted that nothing in the Museum be changed. If anything is added (a new water fountain stirred anxiety among some), anything removed for loan to an exhibition, or anything is subtracted, the entire building and all its contents go to Harvard on the provision that everything be sent to Paris and auctioned. The proceeds would be used for scholarships...