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...left in Hong Kong (about 1,055 remain in Communist China) are waiting and praying to follow them. After months of citified idleness, they itch to get back to felling trees, building houses, tilling the soil-and to go on worshiping in their own way. "We don't want to travel any more," says Elder Kulikov. "We never want to see Soviet Russia again. All we want is peace and hard work...
Ever since Paris was liberated, writers have felt the itch to put it back into a prison of their own special illusions. Of the latest, one is a bounding Basque named François-Regis Bastide, a 32-year-old Frenchman who served under General Leclerc (whose column was the first to drive into Nazi-held Paris). Another is an American who has built a rambling bastille of words in which meanings are thrown into dungeons, to be reached only through endless labyrinths of painstaking prose...
Looking about as shapeless as any other woman in a high-necked sack dress, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe signed up for her first movie in nearly two years: Some Like It Hot, a comedy tailored specially for the Monroe talents by Old Pro Director Billy (The Seven Year Itch) Wilder...
...Makropoulos Secret (by Karel Capek) is a kind of philosophic mystery story-by the author of R.U.R.-first produced in the '20s. It is the kind of phililosophic mystery story that Director Tyrone Guthrie, with his instinct for theater and his itch for new slants, would clearly have enjoyed remodeling. The Guthrie treatment did not mean giving the play a more modern look or a different philosophic spin. It meant reverting to a 19th century mode of acting and a Continental air of high twaddle-one moment for their value as drama, another for what is the outlines...
There was one big consolation among a few friendlier notices. To cover the show for his own column, Crosby commandeered his friend, Playwright George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod, who agreed in advance to pull no punches. Axelrod came through manfully. He liked Crosby's "gently, wryly perceptive style...