Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the guarded inner labyrinth of the Pentagon, five men sit at a brightly polished table in soundproofed Room 2C923. Around them the walls are covered with maps: a relief map of Europe, flat blue maps of the Pacific and the Atlantic, brown-and-gold maps of the land masses of Asia and Africa. Spotted strategically across the grey wall-to-wall carpeting are wastebaskets stenciled SECRET.* Four of the five men are doing most of the talking; the fifth is listening, chain-smoking Parliaments, working intricately filigreed doodles on a white notepad with the preoccupation...
There they heard the piercing wails of ancient reed pipes and flutes. Priests in multicolored robes raised high their offerings-bean cake, teal ducks, brightly polished apples, flasks of rice wine. A special envoy of Emperor Hirohito bore a green, silk-covered chest emblazoned in gold with the Imperial 16-petal chrysanthemum seal. The celebration's chief speaker, Kashihara's Mayor Saburo Yoshikawa, 41, who has exchanged his Japanese Imperial General Staff major's uniform for white gloves and morning coat, was in excellent form. "It is only human nature to love one's country...
Holiday for Lovers (by Ronald Alexander) concerns a well-heeled Minneapolis family's first trip to Europe. Beginning in Manhattan, the Dean family and the play move from one hotel suite to another (Manhattan, Paris, Seville, Rome, Paris). Father, despite a heart of gold, is a bit Babbitty, short-tempered and over-possessive of his two daughters; Mother Knows Better and, between visits to Dior and Balenciaga, smooths things out; one daughter acquires a pianist and the other a painter. The usual names are on the Deans' list-the Sistine Chapel, the Catacombs, the Louvre; Mr. Dean...
...ambitious young idealist comes to Washington with An Idea. A humanitarian botanist, he has developed a new kind of soil in which vegetables grow to enormous size. He merely needs a rather amusing ingredient. "I turn gold into dirt," he explains. And, not only as the central issue for a comedy, this is quite a pleasant idea...
...sets of Good as Gold, especially a mammoth picturesque scale at Fort Knox, are quite gay and appropriate. The acting is not disappointing, but it cannot help much. Roddy Macdowall handles most of what can be done with the hero's role with buoyant competence, and Zero Mostel is often very funny, bellowing enough in his role as the jolly rascal to cover up some of the obviousness of his speeches. The rest of the cast is also adequately adept, but nothing about the production is bright enough to make the evening more than a nearly-made-it comedy...