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...Paris is a strident but adequate tenor named William Tabbert, who is built on the short stubby pattern traditional for tenors, but a little bit odd for one of history's most famous seducers. He acts in a manner for which a really first-rate tenor could be forgiven. Morley Meredith, who has some reputation as a concert baritone, sings the priest Calchas sumptuously, giving some idea of how Offenbach's music can sound given the voices it deserves...
Suddenly a queer breed of cat comes prowling into this mousy existence. The bookkeeper's employer (Robert Morley) falls in love with an American efficiency expert (Constance Cummings) and puts her on the payroll. "Join the 20th century!" she bellows belligerently at Morley and his stunned subordinates, and proceeds to raise corporate Ned in the name of progress. She redecorates the offices, installs time clocks, adding machines, squawk boxes. Soon she is threatening to fire the tweed weavers. "Make cloth for millions-synthetic fiber...
...Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley tried to measure this ether wind. Their idea was to measure the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) against the speed of the earth's motion on its orbit around the sun (18.5 miles per second). They set up their apparatus, an affair of many mirrors, in a lab in a downtown Cleveland building. Once a day the earth's rotation aligned the apparatus with the earth's path around the sun. If there were an ether wind, the light flashing across their lab floor should be slowed...
...difficult concept, which even today few laymen and not all scientists fully comprehend. Furthermore, measuring the speed of light is so difficult that the Michelson-Morley experiment and its successors left a nagging possibility that when better apparatus was developed, it might yet detect some trace of an ether wind...
Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, with Robert Morley as the brutish Beadle, Eric Portman as Fagin, Inga Swenson as Rose, Newcomer Frederick Clark, 12, as Oliver...