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Wearing identification badges (crimson and white for delegates, cardinal red for bishops), they filed into the Civic Auditorium to hear Nashville's Bishop Paul B. Kern make a keynote speech which reflected the views of the 70-man House of Bishops. Highlights: the bishops are against Communism, U.M.T., and "efforts [even among Methodists] to regiment thought and curb freedom of speech"; in favor of interracial brotherhood, the ecumenical movement, and a wider Christian social program. Said Bishop Kern: "Original Methodism was a bold and challenging defense of the rights of the underprivileged . . . This social concern is in our bloodstream...
...expected to go after a second term. Attorney General J. E. Taylor, the only candidate so far for the Democratic nomination, offers no serious threat to Kem. But now Democrats are talking about W. Stuart Symington, the retiring RFC boss. Some liberal Republicans who don't like Kern's record, and a good many businessmen who normally would vote Republican, might go for Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist. There has been speculation, too, that Kem might have to face the old master himself, that Harry Truman might step down and run for Kern's seat...
Music In the Air (music by Jerome Kern; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd; produced by Reginald Hammerstein) still has what it had when first produced in 1932-an extremely engaging Jerome Kern score. It no longer has very much else. Even in 1932, it employed old-fashioned European operetta largely as a model, if sometimes as a butt; its best chance in revival was to capture the nostalgic charm of an unabashed period piece. But as revived, the show as badly lacks bouquet as the production lacks style...
With such Kern favorites as I've Told Every Little Star, In Egern on the Tegern See, The Song Is You, there is no want of melody. Hammerstein's book tells how two Swiss villagers-a father who writes songs and a daughter who sings them-go to Zurich and almost have a fluke success at the expense of professional theatrical people. The story lets Hammerstein make fun of theatrical temperament while showing the ultimate fate of those who lack it. But it plods as both story and satire, and a name cast-Jane Pickens, Charles Winninger, Dennis...
...five: Indiana's Capehart, Montana's Ecton, North Dakota's Langer, Kansas' Schoeppel, Missouri's Kern...