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Last week, Czechoslovakia staged another display of her forces-of those who would form the backbone of her second-line defense. The event was the tenth Congress and athletic carnival of the Sokols, lasting a full month. Sokol Congresses, scheduled every six years, are much older than the modern Olympic Games and, like the ancient Olympics, their background is strongly national. The Czechoslovak Sokol, oldest national gymnastic organization in the world, was founded in 1862 by Philosopher Author Dr. Miroslav Tyrs and Dr. Jindrich Fügner. The name Sokol, meaning falcon, was adopted because it is the traditional name...
...centres this summer, foreign critics studied imported shows of U. S. paintings, prints, photographs, found European influences strong in most of them, expressed polite interest but no overwhelming enthusiasm. C. In Venice, the U. S. exhibition of 63 paintings and no prints, including "old masters" like Winslow Homer and moderns like John Sloan, was overshadowed by a big British show. To signalize better Anglo-Italian relations, England, which sent no art to Venice's biennial two years ago, shipped 24 Epstein bronzes, 25 paintings by Christopher Wood, a roomful of work by Stanley Spencer, led enthusiastic Italian critics...
Symphony Hall until July 2 will continue the "Pops," Boston's unique contribution to popular entertainment and the spread of good music. The orchestra under Arthur Fiedler is invariably good, and although there are special programs on special nights, each performance runs the gamut from classic to modern. Harvard football songs are occasional encores, and dance music is presented now and again, although no attempt is made to compete with Mr. Goodman, now on the Ritz Roof...
Loew's State and Orpeheum is still showing "Toy Wife," with Louise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. Essentially modern actors, they have difficulty in this revival of the Victorian Frou Frou," and the result is not happy...
Spying for the army that has blockaded the port of Castelmare, Miss Carroll changes sides after getting a good look at the city's undernourished urchins and oldsters. This serves to emphasize the picture's incontrovertible thesis-that civilian populations suffer in modern war-but since her sweetheart (Henry Fonda) is in the army fighting to defend Castelmare, audiences are not likely to be bowled over by Miss Carroll's change of sentiment. Otherwise, Blockade's main innovation lies in the fact that it concentrates not on the fighting in the front lines...