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...Washington for a guest appearance with the National Symphony, Britain's terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was introduced to Post Music Critic Paul Hume, who a year ago got threats from the White House for being unimpressed by Singer Margaret Truman's voice. "Why, sir!" roared the British visitor. "I want to shake your hand. I consider you one of the national heroes." Then Sir Thomas had an afterthought: "My God, now the President will never come to my concert...
...Lyons resigned. Last week he explained why. He had been outraged, said Lyons, by Winchell's attacks on people. For example, Winchell had insinuated in his column that President Truman was tipsy when he wrote his insulting letter to the Washington Post's music critic, Paul Hume. "I knew this was untrue," said name-dropper Lyons, "because I lunched with the President a few hours after he wrote the letter, and know personally that he had not been drinking." Not long after, Columnist Winchell slyly turned on Lyons when he was threatened with jail for refusing to name...
...play is pap for sentimental housewives who, to begin with, love watching a husband & wife (Hume Cronyr & Jessica Tandy) play a husband & wife.* And though she is short on comedy? and he just short of farce, they play their roles well, give things a professional air. The play itself is full of the standard details and recognitions pf marriage: its conversational small change and domestic small changes, its emotional freezing and boiling points, male obstinacies and female whims. Some of these are lively, rather more are dull, but all are such cliches that the play could have been written...
...Fourposter--Only two characters--Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy--in this one, but they make up in quality what they lack in quantity. At the Plymouth...