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...Winter's Tale" has some humorous episodes, competent acting, and very beautiful settings, but with such great products of the Shakespearean pen as "Henry IV" and "King Lear" begging for revival, it seems trivially inauspicious for a Theatre Guild production...
Shakespeare: King Lear...
Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army was General Douglas MacArthur's invaluable Team No. 2 in the Philippine campaign. Built up quietly in New Guinea by big, jovial Ike Eichelberger with a staff which started training in Ben Lear's old Second Army, the Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove...
...Author Lennon, in her book's most discerning passage, "that each man thinks for himself, yet all reach the same conclusions." But Lewis Carroll, she believes, belongs with that strange, not-quite-sane minority of British child-humorists (Charles Lamb, Charles Kingsley, W. S. Gilbert, James Barrie, Edward Lear) who "have all been to the Never Never Land at the Back of the North Wind, to the Snow Queen's country - to the edge of insanity, [and fetched] a treasure from the borderland for readers who are too busy or too timid to explore for them selves...
...General Ike's deputy, General Ben, who has a passion for soldierly discipline, is expected to pass "the word" down through the command. Many soldiers were beginning to think it was about time: there were 18,000 AWOLs in ETO last week. Ben Lear will have no part in General Lee's second job: "Courthouse" will go on being boss of supply and service forces...