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...Lighter Jobs? Lower...
...Robinson's puberty-conscious son, Peter, Andy Hardy has a British accent and a British jalopy. Peter's romantic embarrassments are lighter than Hardy's, but a Rooney adolescent in middle class England seems a bit implausible...
...still races on stage, slaps his huge baton on the score for attention, plays each piece with the same sparkle, and sits down behind the same orange flowers. The programs look the same, the match books look the same, and the audience still cats, drinks, and talks through the lighter pieces. Once again the New England Grenfell Association was present on opening night. The only important changes noticeable were the new chairs and tables (the old ones had come from the old Music Hall in 1900) and the heaviness of the music played...
...Nation (circ. 35,889), which usually takes itself and the world with knit-browed gravity, took a lighter view last week of the current "apocalyptic writing." If the bomb destroys the world, wrote Associate Editor Robert Bendiner, "everyone will be prepared with the proper ironic comment." But if the end comes from a "brush with a ... comet, we'll all be caught flatfooted . . . Habits being what they are, the press of the Day Before will handle the approaching calamity as follows...
...next season at the Metropolitan Opera, his ninth season. Even so, he is not his wife's favorite tenor: in her catalogue of greatness, Jussi comes after 60-year-old Beniamino Gigli. Jussi, who has been called the "Swedish Caruso"-inaccurately because his voice is colder and lighter in color-says, "That's all right, Gigli's my favorite too." He never heard Caruso. As a boy of nine he toured the U.S. in the "Bjoerling Male Quartet" with his father and two brothers; while they were singing in Manhattan, the father bought four tickets to hear...