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...chorus was superb, singing cleanly and with infectious rhythm which is the very life-blood of the music. Malcolm Holmes clear conducting could not conceal the orchestra's lack of rehearsal time but the orchestral sections were nearly adequate and will undoubtedly improve in the next two performances. The harpsichord accompaniment was very capably handled throughout by Alan Cunningham...
France has turned fearful eyes to the north in recent months and watched German heavy industry--the life-blood of the Wehrmacht--blossom under careful tending of new American policy. But France's worries are not all founded in emotion, for sound Gallic sense recognizes the need for 19 million tons of coal this year while only 5 million tons are available. German heavy industry not only holds fears for the Frenchman in remembrance of things past, but also is the smelting furnace consuming the coal and coke needed for French recovery...
...wild and consequently destroy the reality of the play. Unfortunately he succeeds in impairing the performances of almost all the actors with the shining exceptions of Myrtle Tannchill, Mary Barthelmess, and Miss Swanson's dog. On the whole the play lacks the timing and spirit that are the life-blood of the sophisticated comedy it tries to be and even the attractive presence of the star does not offset the failings of the production. Thus the total effect of "Reflected Glory" would involve a bad pun about a dirty mirror. It can all be chalked up to experience Miss Swanson...
Your editorial "Nieman Nemesis" naturally interests me. Its indictment of the Nieman Fellowships is that the chief result has been a movement of Fellows from small papers to the New York papers, which, by this process, "sucked the life-blood from their journalistic brethren." You, therefore, question the value of the Nieman Fellowships to the American press...
...suppose that the metropolitan newspapers are constantly "sucking the life-blood from their journalistic brethren." All education, I am afraid, tends to concentrate talented people in the larger centers where the rewards are greatest. And this is bound to apply in some degree to education of journalists, even those who have become somewhat established in non-metropolitan areas before receiving Nieman Fellowships. It may be pointed out that Nieman Fellows are generally of an age when abler and more ambitions men have chances to move. It is inevitable that some men are going to take those chances; they would whether...