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...234th play. Many plays belong to Hollywood; others require involved copyright negotiations with estates, literary agents and assorted claimants. Some shows can be presented on live TV, but not on film or kinescope. Some were written by authors like Bernard Shaw who, to TVmen's dismay, frown on any cutting, editing or tampering with their lines...
...that the English have been strangely inconsistent in the words they keep and those they throw away. Why, for instance, does flay persist but not the igth Century word flay some? Why is gruesome still around but not the verb to grue (shudder)? Concludes Curioso Brown, with a February frown: despite the inventiveness of slang, the English language seems doomed to be drowned out by the tintamarre of the commonplace; all it can hope to do is to thribble along...
...bill granting women the right to vote in national elections and to run for Parliament is now before the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies. It may not easily become law since many Moslems frown on female independence; this is in keeping with the spirit of the Koran, which says: "Men are superior to women on account of the qualities with which God hath gifted one above the other, and on account of the outlay they [the men] make from their substance for them [the women]." Turkey, which has had woman suffrage since 1934, Albania, Pakistan and Indonesia are exceptions among Moslem...
These days, no time clock daunts the coffee-breakers, and no office manager's frown. The office worker who arrives at 9 o'clock runs the risk of being trampled by the 8:30 arrivals who have had time to hang up their coats, fix their faces and conscientiously flutter a few papers. Young stenographers have found that they can squeeze in a few minutes of extra sleep by dashing for the office, dashing right out again for breakfast coffee and a cruller. Said a Boston stenographer: "If I couldn't look forward to some coffee...
...marriage last fall to a girl named Leda. Marriage takes money, so Muccini has stopped being "self-unemployed" and started working "almost hard." Hit of the show was his violet-toned portrait of Leda, a study both tender and exact. "I like to paint women," Muccini observes with a frown, "because of the great, curious attraction they have for me." He is little more articulate about his second favorite subject: "The bull attracts me as a theme in that it is always associated with a wall...