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Gibraltar's main - and almost only -street is a delightful omnium-gatherum of the civilizations that have passed its way since Hercules rent Europe from Africa and made the Rock one of his Pillars. On the soft Mediterranean air, jasmine and mimosa mingle with the aroma of frying pescado and chips; from back alleys float shreds of flamenco music, tourist twist and the dogged strains of Methodist choir practice (Rock of Ages is a Gibraltarian favorite). Helmeted native bobbies impartially ogle vacationing English shopgirls, off-duty African belly dancers, and the Midwestern matrons among the 240,000 visitors...
...Rose Tattoo (Hal Wallis; Paramount), like the Tennessee Williams play from which it is adapted, is less a show, in a dramatic sense, than a sideshow-a gatherum of Pitchman Williams' less peculiar freaks. The principal exhibit is Serafina Delle Rose (Anna Magnani), a hearty peasant wench transplanted from Sicily to the Gulf Coast. Since the death of her husband, a small-time smuggler, she has turned into a sort of moral worm crawling in and out of his memory. She keeps his ashes in a gimcrack vase in their shanty parlor, and has long, sweaty daydreams about...
...Issue Decided. Confronted with this issue, isolationist Dev left off reading speeches written ten years ago. He rejected the idea of a coalition' cabinet as a "mixum-gatherum affair." The thought of "bargaining" with Britain, the obstacle to the union of northern and southern Ireland, made him "sick...
Last week Mrs. Roosevelt deftly slipped the quartet into the program* of the Inaugural Gala, an omnium-gatherum of music and anti-Fascist vaudeville last Sunday night in Washington's Constitution Hall. That hall, owned by the D. A. R., two years ago was forbidden to Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. Last week the D. A. R. moodily approved the Golden Gate Quartet...
...perhaps arbitrary assumption that his fellow-Europeans hanker to know what the U. S. is really like, Editor Ringel, New York literary correspondent for Berlin newspapers, persuaded 46 U. S. literati and 100 artists to contribute to an omnium-gatherum of descriptions, opinions and whatnot. On the assumption that such a book, "intended and edited for publication in European countries'' would enthrall U. S. natives, it is first published in the U. S., crowned with the Literary Guild's June choice...