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Arsenic and Old Lace (by Joseph Kesselring, produced by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse) is absolutely top farce. A violently funny and batty murder play, it might be described, in the words of one of the cast, as what could be expected "if Strindberg had written Hellzapoppin...
...delightful a performance of Mozart as any within memory. 'The Marriage of Figaro, of course, in its original form was Beaumarchais' virulent satire on the French nobility.' If Da Ponte, Mozart's incompetent librettist, had not emasculated Beaumarchais' play of all its social satire, until it was nothing but lace and frills, we might have a more cogent piece of drama. Even as it is, Mozart's score is so wonderfully expressive and dramatic that of itself it creates vital characters where there are nothing but wooden-heads in the libretto...
Harvard students who will don knee-breeches, lace, and ruffles to ride in the coaches will be Thomas Carroll '42, John Wilner '41, Newbold Landon '42, Woodrow Strandberg '41, and Earl Montgomery...
...flourishing business of quizzing the U. S. populace has few practitioners more indefatigable than Parks Johnson & Wal lace Butterworth, who serve as interlocutors for the CBS show, Vox Pop. Together they have wandered up & down the land paying citizens $1 to answer such queries as: How many feathers on the average hen?* What was our President's name 30 years ago?† Should a gentleman remove his hat before striking a lady?**Along with this pert questionnaire, Vox Pop offers its listeners interviews with cinema stars, politicos, "typical Americans," statistics on the number of one-armed paper hangers, wooden...
...afternoon, squads tried to start fires near objectives in London, which would light the way for night bombers. When these beacons failed, the Nazis just dropped their bombs at random. Plenty of bombs missed their intended marks and struck at innocence. The Germans also bombed the ancient stone lace of Cambridge University as "the only way of making the British realize the insanity of such attacks as that staged on Heidelberg...