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...School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, turns a Broadway stage into an 18th century drawing room. John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Geraldine McEwan give of their stylish best to this durable comic classic...
...Bridal Path (British Lion; Kings-ley-Union). "What signifies the life o' man," sang Bobby Burns, "An' 'twere na for the lasses, 0?" The question is askit o' Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers), a couthie young crofter o' Beigg, by the carlies o' that Scottish isle, an' afore the braw laddie can say tapsalteerie he's awa' to the mainland tae hilch himsel' a wife. He haes his courtin' orders: nae Campbells, nae Catholics, and nae lassies from Erismore Isle. An' he haes the cantie assistance...
...Singapore, Police Chief Alastair McEwan had been tipped off that Westerling would turn up "very soon" to buy arms and sign up recruits for the Heavenly Host. McEwan arrested the swashbuckling outlaw for entering the British Crown colony illegally. Singapore police carelessly put him into a prison cell with an Indonesian student named Haris Porkas. Half an hour later, Porkas was carried out with a broken jaw. Westerling said that Porkas had provoked the fight. When Westerling offered his hand, Porkas spat...
Calvin W. McEwan, Mrs. McEwan and Harold D. Hill-had a good deal of trouble just getting visas to reach the site. After they got there they were officially advised to go home. When they decided to stay and cabled Chicago for funds, officials shrugged, obligingly transmitted the cable without further ado. In the message they also dolefully revealed that at the top of the mound, which they had to cut through, were the remains of some 70.000 human bodies, apparently buried there after fighting or massacres in World...
...Oriental Institute had no less than twelve expeditions probing the rich antiquities of the Near East, and its director, the late, great James Henry Breasted, scurried around from camp to camp by airplane. Now in this area the Institute has only one expedition, the McEwan party at Tell Fakhariyeh. War is not the only reason for this; another reason is diminished income...