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...Shanghai, since 1933, ricksha men pay 4½? a day for social security to the municipal government's "Ricksha Pullers' Mutual Aid Association." In return they receive such benefits as $2.50 toward funeral expenses. There is also a Ricksha Pullers' Guild, organized in 1925. In Shanghai it claims 10,000 out of 60,000 pullers. Its membership fee is 5?; its boss is an oratorical, brown-gowned Kuomintang man named Chang. It was Chang's union which drew up and sent to the Government a petition voicing the ricksha men's fear and doubt over...
...Twenty years ago he was treading the boards in the quadrangle behind Sever when his own company gave summer performances around new England. Age and portliness have only enhanced his charms as Falstaff, that wistful pursuer of other men's wives. His supporting cast does credit to the Theater Guild's reputation for fostering real talent. A special word of commendation belongs to Judson Rees, the seven year old trouper who portrays Falstaff's petite page...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and their clothes did splendidly in a preview of the first postwar silly season (June to September). A sudden spring tide of pressagents' panegyrations washed them each to glory: the multimillionaire sportsman to a place on the "best-dressed men" list of the Custom Tailors Guild of America; wife Jeanne to a place on the Fashion Academy's "best-dressed women" list. Jeanne, an heiress in her own right,* was one of those the Academy acclaimed for somehow managing to dress well on a budget...
...Gets Slapped (translated from the Russian of Leonid Andreyev by Judith Guthrie; produced by the Theatre Guild) made box office of bewilderment when it was first produced on Broadway 24 years ago. Audiences were seldom quite sure what Andreyev's circus tragedy meant, but it fitted neatly into a culture-crazed era that wore its art on its sleeve. He Who Gets Slapped was unquestionably Slavic, questionably symbolic and flamboyantly gloomy...
David the King, a full-bodied (631-page) retelling of the great Biblical story by the author of The Gates of Aulis (TIME, June 15,1942), is the March choice of The Literary Guild and the Religious Book Club...