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...virtually outlawed capital punishment. But when he had a chance to prove that he really believes in progressive penal methods, he turned his back and whimpered "what can I do?" This was when his Correction Commissioner attempted to oust the reforming woman superintendent of a state woman's prison, Miriam Van Waters. Massachusetts needs new roads, and Dever is building new roads. But he is doing so at an incredible price, five times the nation's average, and in a period of inflation when there is no unemployment problem and costs are high...
...whom she outgrows. In his first Hollywood movie since That Hamilton Woman (1941), Laurence Olivier is a bit too elegant as Restaurantman Hurstwood, but he plays a tricky role with grace and restrained passion. In lesser parts, Eddie Albert is often overly bumpkinish as the traveling salesman, but Miriam Hopkins is a convincingly shrewish Mrs. Hurstwood...
Lalo: Violin Concerto In F (Miriam Solovieff; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Henry Swoboda conducting; Concert Hall). A fiddler's standby, warmly played by talented U.S. Violinist Solovieff...
Sunday Breakfast (by Emery Rubio & Miriam Balf) brought one of the weakest theatrical seasons in living memory to a rather respectable close. Though an inexpert play, and less a play than a picture, this American National Theater & Academy offering is veined with honest purpose and streaked with effective observation. A study of a family, it portrays the frazzled emotions and jangled nerves, the inner gnawing that makes for outward nagging, of lives lived under constant pressure. A harassed jeweler (Anthony Ross) lives over his shop with his long-suffering, short-tempered wife (Margaret Feury). Their son won't take...
Britain has bird watchers for every hedgerow, but most of them do not scratch the surface of the bird world. The closest bird watchers in Britain are the learned Misses Miriam Rothschild and Teresa Clay, who comb the feathers of birds, probe their body openings, search through their nests with microscopes. They are looking for the lice, fleas, ticks, mites, flies, worms and other parasites which swarm over all birds. After many years of study, the Misses Rothschild and Clay have published a lively book, Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos (Collins, London; 21 s.), packed with detailed information about the fascinating...