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...playing to capacity: what more do you want? ... As for me, it's ruining me. Under this year's capital levy I have to pay the Exchequer ?147 for every ?100 you send me ... I am longing for it to flop before I am quite penniless, cursing the day you were born...
...Bernard Shaw; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Alfred Fischer) can't quite hide its late igth Century look or its early G.B.S. grin. A scrambly farce, it treats of modern-minded matrons separated from their husbands, children trying to track down their father, a penniless dentist wooing a would-be unromantic miss, a wise waiter whose son is a distinguished barrister. Shaw called You Never Can Tell a potboiler, and few-even of his admirers -would call it art. But though Shaw may seem to be writing down in it, actually he is tuning...
Blossom & Shadow. Author Moore allows that Brensham village has its troubles. When the frost strikes the blossoms of its innumerable orchards, the village goes half-penniless the remainder of the year. When rich Londoners buy up and "develop" the mad lord's crazy, romantic acres, poachers and gypsies foresee the doom of carefree living, and the black shadow of standardized modern life falls across Brensham's thatched roofs. But such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham...
Gideon's Army was on the march. Henry Wallace's third party, as yet nameless and pennonless (but not penniless), bivouacked briefly last week on Capitol Hill. Wallace had come, at his own request, to deliver an attack on the European Recovery Program before the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...Plans. For the homeless, crippled refugees, no one had anticipated relief measures. In New Delhi a penniless Hindu woman from the West Punjab clutched her two children, told of her husband's murder by Moslems. "Don't ask her about her plans," cautioned a welfare official, "she hasn't any and neither have...