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This week, the rejoicing turned to gloom. One of the world's best-guarded babies had disappeared. Bird-lovers feared that Little 38 had become a victim of some marauding animal...
...over the country, customarily cheerful ticos were wrapped in deepest gloom. "The Most Sacred Little Black One," said by tradition to have been given by the Virgin to a negro slave girl at the site of the basilica more than 300 years ago, is Costa Rica's most venerated relic. Costa Ricans took what hope they could from the old legend that the image had disappeared once before in colonial days, only to turn up again...
Dyer-Bennett sang some traditional ballads, "Green sleeves," "Barbara Allen" and "Blow the Candles Out." The last had a tinge of bawdiness since it was written before "the moral gloom of our own period," when a little spice was taken for granted. Although he hinted that a little spice never hurts, Dyer-Bennett declined to sing anything bawdier...
Hollywood Star Playhouse (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). A new drama series. James Stewart in Nor Gloom of Night...
Main Line is his first big postgraduate effort. It is a pretty good one, well organized, carefully if stiffly written, and sincere in tone. It manages with very few means to convey the musty gloom of the old Main Line houses, and to suggest that the gloom may be the emanation of the people in them, that the mustiness may be the reek of decaying personalities...