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...also a less poetic one. In The Tempest, with its wonderful language, words speak louder than actions; not everybody in the Webster production knew how to utter them. Arnold Moss was a sonorous and commanding Prospero, Frances Heflin a sensitive Miranda. But as Ariel, Ballerina Vera Zorina let a good many speeches dwindle, and her grace was cold rather than sunlit. As Caliban, Negro Actor Canada Lee could not (like Shakespeare) make poetry of ugliness. Stressing the rather dull comedy also shattered the mood; the revolving stage was more practical than atmospheric. This generation may never see a livelier Tempest...
Arnold Moss is an impressive Prospero with an incisive voice that gives force and significance to some of Shakespeare's most moving poetry. France Heflin portrays Miranda with an air of innocent wonder that is truly beautiful. Ballet is not out of place in "The Tempest," and Vera Zorina's Ariel has exceptional grace, if not marked dramatic excellence...
...Heflin Commands...
Lieutenant Colonel John F. Heflin, AUS, associate professor of Military Science and Tactics, is the commandant of the war adjustment school at Harvard, having given up his former post as head of the Army Air Forces Statistical School...
Exactly one month after Dunster House was officially closed to civilians, 200 Army Air Force officers will arrive Monday to make it their home during eight weeks of study under the War Adjustment Program. The new school is directly under the command of Lt. Col. John F. Heflin of the Statistical School, but otherwise the two schools are entirely separate...