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Some foreign political leaders have also returned to action after heart attacks. Pakistan's Prime Minister Chaudhri Mohamad Ali* had a heart attack in 1952, when he was Finance Minister. Brazil's João Café Filho has recovered from his November heart attack at least to the point of demanding- without success-that he be given back his job as President. Canada's M. J. Coldwell, leader of the CCF (Socialist Party), was a heart patient three years ago, stayed in politics, and just last week completed a tour in which he made 50 speeches...
Eternity & Everywhere. The curtain rises to a rising ah of delight that passes into a volley of applause. The setting by Jo Mielziner is a striking thing. Instead of painted scenery, he has used a simple cotton scrim that sets the time at eternity, the place at everywhere. The forestage is filled with what looks like a mighty cubistic boulder on which Joan sits pale and still, like a piteous Prometheus in the midst of her tormentors. The tableau breaks, and the trial, which is the metaphor the action moves in, takes its course. In a matter of moments...
...movie version is best when it stays closest to the stage show, which, fortunately, it does much of the time. The book, first pieced together by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling from some Damon Runyon stories, suffers very little in the transition. It still traces the frantic efforts of Nathan Detroit the manager of "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York," to find a home for his business activities safe from annoying policemen. Detroit thinks his rent-money problem is solved when he bets one of his customers, Sky Masterson, that Sky cannot take a certain female...
...crisis began to simmer a fortnight ago, involving Lott's right to discipline an outspoken golpista army colonel. This dispute turned into a decisive test of strength between Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Café Filho, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Luz, took over as Brazil's Acting President. Luz, suspected of being a golpista, ruled against War Minster Lott in the affair of the loose-lipped colonel. Lott resigned, and Luz promptly named a golpista general as War Minister...
...primordial rite of dice-Michael Kidd has staged his ballets even more effectively than he did on Broadway. Frank Loesser's lyrics are classy, too, whether his music is or not, and Director Joseph Mankiewicz has often made the most of a very good Broadway book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows...