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...With gleeful gruffness, Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, intoned the citation: "For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service . . . responsible for the organization, development and completion of a military program which brought success to the American arms . . . services of inestimable value to the country...
Volpone and Mosca were played with skill by Claude Rains and Earl Larimore. In his nightgown, his cracked and reedy voice gleeful with deception, Volpone remained to the end a riddle. After the Fox, in planned guise of death, has signed away his coffersful to his servant, Mosca throws into his teeth the question: "Who are you?", and there is no real answer. Volpone is no longer Volpone, for Volpone made a will and died. But he never was anyone; even to Johnson he never was more real than the idea of greed...
...Electric's foreign supply business to I. T. & T. Last week, it announced the offer of Graybar's entire $3,000,000 common voting stock to its 2,500 employes and officers, as the Graybar Management Corp. Led by A. L. Salt, Graybar's president, the gleeful new owners planned...
While shocked or gleeful Britons were pondering these surely memorable words, good Squire Baldwin made further philosophic utterance, last week, at the 150th anniversary services in "The Little Church on City Road," famed London nucleus of some 106,000 Methodist churches which now dot the Globe...
Volpone. When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...