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...cannot accept him as a suitor is bewildered over how to accept him at all. He chafes and broods and breaks loose; he talks to prostitutes in a bar, talks to one of them in her room; is crushed by the death of his grandmother (well played by Estelle Hemsley), restored to life by an ardent young widow...
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Thomas Hemsley; members of the Mermaid Theatre, London, conducted by Geraint Jones; H.M.V.). A charming short opera by the finest English composer of all time. Its attractions include a witches' dance, a laughing chorus, a sailors' dance, a hunt scene (with thunderstorm) and, of course, love both requited and tragic. Highlight: Flagstad singing When I Am Laid in Earth...
...Yankees, perennial pennant winners under Joe McCarthy, had pitching trouble, too. All season they had missed the deft touch of longtime star catcher (now Navy Lieut.) Bill Dickey. Last month they also lost veteran catcher Rollie Hemsley to the Navy. But like all Yankee clubs, the present one is giving its pitchers plenty of hitting help...
...three days later-all smiles and handing out cigars to celebrate the birth of a little Rosar-Catcher Rosar found that a potential policeman's lot was not a happy one. Manager McCarthy had not only fined him $250 for jumping the club but had hired rollicking Rollie Hemsley to take his place. Hemsley, recently cast off by the Cincinnati Reds for his dismal record of 13 hits in 115 times at bat this season, seemed an unlikely squat-in for Bill Dickey. But on his first day with the Yankees, catching all innings of a doubleheader...
...wants. It gives the public what it ought to have." What the public "ought to have" on Tuesday, Feb. 4 included: How the Welfare Centres Can Help You, by Dr. Stella Churchill; Leonardo Kemp and his Piccadilly Hotel Orchestra; Modern Poetry, by Victoria Sackville-West; Child Impersonations, by Harry Hemsley; Oxford in the Seventies, by Mrs. Margaret L. Woods; Scientific Research and Clothes, by Professor Leonard Hill...