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...conducting a civic investigation. The gang put it squarely up to the perfect murderer: either the investigator's life or his own. When Mr. Truex substitutes powdered sugar for the cyanide things begin to look very dark for him indeed. He saves himself and his fiancee by the neatest trick of the melodramatic season. Whistling In The Dark is not a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize, but it has wit, freshness...
...same reasons. The production is even faster, more up-to-date. The Metropolitan's conservative ballet appears barelegged. Jeritza is gorgeous in a black & gold court costume, magnificently casual as she steps up to the sacred prompter's box and uses it like a brass rail. Neatest tricks: a high dive by the big soprano, relaxed as any trained ballerina, straight into the arms of Tenor Marek Windheim and Baritone Louis D'Angelo; a shooting exhibition by Assistant Conductor Carlo Edwards who borrowed a shotgun from a neighboring speak-easy after the show, potted some 30 balloons...
After Waterloo ("a damned serious business-a damned nice thing-the neatest run thing you ever saw in your life. . . . By God! I don't think it would have been done if I had not been there.") nothing was too good for Wellington. Already a Duke, he had every conceivable honor, all possible emoluments heaped on him. He became Prime Minister, was even made Chancellor of Oxford. He could do no wrong. Once out shooting (being a General, not a sniper) "he shot a dog, then a keeper, and finally an aged cottager who had been rash enough...
...field? Why have they no children? What is her chief interest? Impossible though it might seem to ask at least two of these questions, they have all been answered to Wellesley alumnae during the past year by China's delicately frank First Lady. Her latest, neatest answer: "I have always wondered how much having children puts mothers out of commission for public work. What China needs now are women free to train other women...
...that would be practically the neatest trick of the week, for any author to execute. It would be especially difficult for me, since, although I am familiar with the work of Mr. Hemingway. I have not read a line of Mr. Barry's, nor have I had the good fortune to attend one of his plays...