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Bernard Shaw's treatment of the identical theme demonstrates Ibsen's inadequacy. Taking his semifaseist philosophy partially from the Norwegian playwright himself, Shaw builds an effective and convincing argument in "Heartbreak House" and other plays because his technique--his language, ideas, and situations--is bright and sharp enough to carry his doctrine. Ibsen bases his philosophic appeal on a situation that falls flat, on characters that are crude white and blackest black. The language--whether his fault or that of the translator--is so stilted, so drab that it tends to mire the play in a morass of monotony...
Family Man. The Hammersteins have a house in Manhattan, but he prefers Highland Farm, which was furnished by Mrs. Hammerstein, a professional interior decorator ("We didn't get cute"). There he rises at about 7:30 and gets a massage by Peter Moen, a bald, powerful Norwegian, without whom he refuses to go anywhere (partly because Peter is homesick, Hammerstein has decided to take a trip to Scandinavia next month...
...Norwegian Airlines Kvitbjoern (White Bear), a Sandringham flying boat, was one of the fanciest airliners aloft. An elevator carried its steward between the kitchen on the upper deck and the dining room and snack bar on the lower...
Last week from one peak, hidden in rain and fog, fishermen heard an explosion that echoed from cliff to cliff. The Kvitbjoern, bound from Tromso to Oslo, burned for several hours. None of its 27 passengers and eight crewmen survived. It was the worst disaster ever for the Norwegian Airlines (headed by Admiral Byrd's old pilot, Bernt Balchen...
King Haakcon VII came in for a little court jesting on the eve of his 75th birthday. Norway's Danish-born monarch granted audience to Danish-born Axel Lund, who runs a number of Norwegian hotels. The King said that he was happy to meet a Dane who had done so well in Norway. Replied Lund: "So am I, Your Majesty...