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...another part of Paris, a countess with a centuries-old name expressed it differently. She lay back in a deep armchair and waved a delicate hand in a vague, tired gesture: "Whether I am better off? Ma pauvre amie! A year ago I still had my servants-I can't afford them today. I go to market myself, line up in the queue and join the discussion of the housewives about carrots. There were times in my life when I didn't even know what carrots were...
...wrote, more than 300 years ago, a Lancashire merchant named Gerard Ma-lynes, faithful servant to Elizabeth of England and one of Britain's earliest economic writers. Two centuries after Ma-lynes this became the bright gospel of "Free Trade," which seemed to promise to all men the freedom of the ocean, the tolerance of the high road and the fraternity of the market place. Of late decades, the promise has dimmed. Last week ended, somewhat dismally, a revival meeting of the once stirring gospel...
...Look, Ma, I'm Dancin' (music & lyrics by Hugh Martin; book by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee; produced by George Abbott) hit on a bright subject for a musical: ballet. There was plenty to spotlight, spoof, and splash with color. But Look, Ma isn't quite up to the job. It has its undeniable high points; but as a whole it doesn't come...
Though Look, Ma has all the special ingredients needed for a musicomedy about ballet, it lacks the right basic ingredients of musicomedy itself. Jerome Robbins has worked out some delightful dances; gifted Harold Lang and others do some delightful dancing; and Nancy Walker, a fine comic, takes excellent care of the comedy. But the minute Look, Ma gives its toes a rest, it becomes all thumbs. Its music is not very bright, and its book is downright dull...
Last week, British businessmen in Bur ma thought they would stay on. Britain still holds large investments in Burmese commerce and industry, and most of Burma's exports go to Empire countries. Burma, squeezed between two Asiatic giants (India and China), has permitted Britain to maintain military missions...