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Mark Bramhall and Marjorie Lerstrom drew the two roles most chopped up by the crossfire between Brecht and Farquahr. Farquahr's Worthy is an amorous country gentleman of leisure and a bit of a buffoon; Brecht's is a shoe merchant who plans to sell his boots to the platoon Plume recruits, and his mental temperature oscillates between extremet canniness and extreme romanticism. Bramhall might have made the role gell a bit better by treating some of Worthy's protestations as posturing. Miss Lerstrom faces the same problem with Melinda and resolves it by throwing herself vigorously into the lady...
Patriotic Bunting. Chagall continued back to Vitebsk from Berlin, then war broke out leaving his work cached in Paris and Berlin. Once home, he married his childhood sweetheart, the darkly sensual Bella Rosenfeld, Moscow-educated daughter of a wealthy merchant. It was the great love of his life, and he celebrated it in his exuberant 1918 Double Portrait with a Wineglass, in which a violet-stockinged Bella holds the artist up in the air, lifting him joyously above the streets, while an angel representing their daughter Ida hovers overhead...
Welby Lee is a tireless Tennesseean who has spent 20 years and traveled 100,000 miles in search of the hit-and-run driver who killed his father on a country road on New Year's Eve, 1944. With only a broken bumper guard as solid evidence, Lumber Merchant Lee, now 52, traced scores of cars and suspects before he caught up last year with Grover Jones, 56, an Indianapolis handyman. On the basis of Lee's mound of circumstantial evidence, Jones was indicted for second-degree murder, only to have the case wind up in a mistrial...
...willing to put in some $20 million of his own, has large financing from Marine Midland Trust Co. and Chase Manhattan Bank, and wants the Government to ante up about $125 million. The cost is stiff-but anything would be a bargain if it could help rescue the U.S. merchant marine. The once proud fleet is being pushed into increasingly rough straits by low efficiency, high labor costs, and fierce foreign competition...
Drastic solutions are obviously needed. Despite federal subsidies of nearly $400 million a year, the U.S. merchant fleet is declining-from 1,212 ships in 1949 to 910 at present-and its share of U.S. foreign trade has fallen from 23.5% to 8.5% in the past decade. As for the passenger companies, they are beset by plentiful complaints about poor service at sea. Of the six U.S. passenger lines, none is showing a profit. Says an executive of one of the biggest lines: "The traveling public uses American ships only as a last resort...