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...weekly Amsterdam News speaks with a loud voice. But when the Negro-owned-and-staffed News hiked its price from 10? to 15? in 1946, its voice began to quaver as circulation slipped from a peak of 110,000 to around 65,000. In an effort to get the frog out of its throat, the News made a drastic change: for the first time in its 41-year history, it hired a white man as its managing editor. The News's new boss: New York-born Stanley Ross, 36, onetime Latin American stringer for A.P. and the New York...
...fruit, ham, chicken, lobster and a skinned hare. The rest of the painting seems to show that it takes all kinds to make a world: there are a broad-beamed model, a shepherd boy with a goat, a Negro with a wheelbarrow, a bishop, a gargoyle, a rat, a frog, a monkey, a barking dog and a girl with a bouquet, whom Lorjou describes as "the pretty woman one sees every day some place...
...Jean (The Duenna) Karsavina's libretto, the mustachioed gambler challenges champion frog Dan'l Webster's owner Smiley, then feeds Dan'l up on quail shot while the boys are outside laying their bets for the easy money. Before the contest comes off, the gambler strolls off for a mustache-twirling romance-which provides Composer Foss with an opportunity for some witty, satirical mustache-twirling music. Dan'l loses the contest, but the villain's villainies are found out, and he is brought to frontier justice...
...With The Frog safely on its way (it gets another production at the Berkshire Music Festival next month), young Lukas Foss was already looking for a new libretto, "a longer and more serious one-but that doesn't mean everybody has to die at the end." He would have plenty of time to find one and work on it. He has resigned his post as pianist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to spend next season in Italy as a winner of the American Academy in Rome's Prix de Rome...
...Chaplains) and WACs on overseas duty (Force of Her Arms). M-G-M is planning to shoot a story about Japanese-American G.I.s in Italy (Go For Broke), and 20th Century-Fox is about to begin filming the exploits of the Navy's rubber-suited demolition swimmers (The Frog...