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...somewhat aging figure, sitting his white, 16-year-old steed, Topper, with the assurance born of a hundred B westerns-pandemonium was certain to reign. The screams, the whistles, the volleys of exploding caps which racket up whenever he rides through the ranks of his wriggling idolaters would probably outdo anything ever heard during the games of ancient Rome...
...always done so well. When young Arthur Houghton, fresh out of Harvard with a well-developed taste for rare and fine books,* went to work in the Corning Glass Works 21 years ago, Steuben was an unwanted, money-losing subsidiary. Glassblowers made their own designs, and tried to outdo each other in rococo examples of their craft. Houghton, whose family controls Corning Glass, was wasting his well-cultivated taste on ordinary glassmaking. He asked for and was given Steuben in 1933, along with a stockpile of "blinding-colored glass monstrosities" and the lusterless annual deficit...
Director Jules (The Naked City) Dassin's staging and Franz Waxman's overwrought musical score try to outdo each other in stridency. Aging (seventyish) Wrestler Zbyszko is natural and dignified in his acting debut, and Actor Widmark turns the neat trick of working up some sympathy for an unsavory character...
Happy Day. Last week's newcomer restaurant, the Ararat, is operated by the government of the Armenian S.S.R., which has spared no efforts to outdo the Aragvi. The best cook in the Armenian capital has been brought to Moscow. Armenian wines have arrived to stock the Ararat's cellar...
...Broadway, spring all too often wears a wintry look, and April is the crudest month indeed. Last week two plays, one French and one American, struggled to outdo each other in making their characters and their audiences groan. As the work of French Playwright Jean Anouilh (Antigone), Cry of the Peacock proved the more surprising debacle. Anouilh's indictment of Love began as frivolously as Molnar and wound up as savagely as Strindberg. With notable help from the production, the play messed up every mood it attempted, and, despite brief glimpses of something better, proved dated, hollow, inept. Bitterly...