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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last word . . . superb musician . . . we're all very happy." Said new Conductor Münch himself in tentative English: the orchestra was "good," the enthusiasm from the audience "difficile" to explain...
...M'Lord (by W. Douglas Home; produced by Lee & J. J. Shubert and Linnit & Dunfee Ltd. by arrangement with John Krimsky) is one of those comedies that are blatantly British and otherwise quiet as mice. Treating of a titled family that has almost gone broke and an England that has gone Labor, it couldn't be more concerned with politics or less concerned about them...
...hazy film of satire, or at any rate of spoofing, hangs over Yes, M'Lord. But in general Playwright Home seems to have done his best to make everything as inconsequential as possible. The play's weakness is not so much that it is trivial, as that it grows tiresome; its scenes are all played twice, including some (like Tony's with the parlormaid) that shouldn't be played at all. But there are compensations: some bright nonsensical chatter, some skillful British acting. As the butler. George Curzon. though effective, has himself rather too good...
Deficit Financing. In Dallas, caught redhanded trying to crack a safe, Delbert A. Bowers told the cops: "I'm going on trial tomorrow [for armed robbery] and I needed some money...
Russia entrusted the guidance of the East German Republic yesterday to a tight-slipped diplomat who pulled the strings for the Communist coup in Hungary after the war. Naming Gregori M. Pushkin chief of its diplomatic mission, the Soviet Union became the first power in the world to grant legal recognition to the nine day old state...