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Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a workable and reasonable way of saving the world from the atom...
...Will Irwin & the late Sidney Howard; music by Raymond Scott; produced by Michael Myerberg) is the season's loveliest production and most charming failure. A retelling, with music, dances and pageantry, of a 500-year-old Chinese classic, it never quite catches the inner glow of art or the outward stir of theater. There should have been either less spectacle or less story. As it is, the old tale is retold at considerable length, but loses much of its flow and human feeling through gorgeous interruptions and sumptuous distractions. What's more, neither the writing nor the acting...
...heartland of the manufacturing East was dead: steel was down in the greatest strike in history. The smoke lifted over Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. The glow of slag dumps dimmed in Birmingham, Ala. The blast furnaces of South Chicago and Youngstown, from which swaying ladles had drawn the molten seed of national growth, now cooled in unnatural silence. The wonder of the world, a national capacity to produce 95,000,000 tons of steel a year, was wonderfully impotent...
...joys: "You won't soon forget dawn high above the glacial labyrinth of crevasses; nor the ... gleam of sunrise flaming into a golden glow; nor the mist spiraling down fast like shreds of lace...
...Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else affects, then gave it the business ("Chloe - where are you, you old bat you?"). They caught the nagging, namby-pamby nonsense of Glow-Worm. Their Cocktails for Two, to a 1934 sob ballad, was such a jukebox favorite that Victor made 150,000 pressings with it on both sides - so that as soon as one side wore out the other side could be played to death...