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...Robert Osborn is so right. Would suggest that the Detroit planners make a survey on what the American people desire in the way of a design instead of trying to outdo each other in seeing who can put the most of what on which and where. MRS. R. B. FROCK Pasadena, Calif...
...atmosphere of the play some 30 centuries forward. He has boldly evoked an Edwardian world full of prance and panoply, his Trojans very British, his Greeks very German. He has shown a siren Helen lolling against a cream-and-gold piano; he makes Pandarus frock-coated and effeminate, Thersites a disheveled cockney war photographer. He might find license for his anachronisms in the play itself, where Hector quotes Aristotle...
...wrangle: How much do they dare tell Hitler of how desperate the situation is? The politicians gather nervously for the Führer's birthday party. Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Bormann, Speer-the likenesses are good enough to inspire shudders. Eva Braun (Lotte Tobisch), in her frumpy frock and country perm, might have stepped right out of the photograph on Hitler's desk...
...bloody trophies to Ava, who clutched an ear to her lips for a long kiss as the crowd cheered. But in another fight last week at Aranjuez, near Madrid, more sober-minded aficionados seemed less happy about Ava and the toreador. Ava was dazzling as ever in a yellow frock, but Cesar was peaked and off his form; he fought only a fair fight and won neither ear nor tail for his lady...
...surrender on the Missouri. "The Prime Minister . . . was considered unsuitable because he was the Emperor's uncle . . . [The] Vice Premier . . . shunned the ordeal. Finally, the mission was assigned to Foreign Minister Shigemitsu." He was the little Japanese who stumped into history ten years ago this week, grotesque in frock coat and topper amid the tieless suntans of MacArthur's conquerors, to sign the surrender papers and take his nation's disgrace upon his bowed shoulders. One U.S. general recalled: "The Japanese plenipotentiary had a little trouble with...