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Despite this underplaying, "The Wooden Horse" is well worth seeing. C. Pennington-Richard's photography is not only realistic, but worthy of any photographic salon, and the music has the benefit of the London Symphony Orchestra...
Southern Hospitality. In Pennington Gap, Va., at the dedication of the new Lee County jail, Carpenter Lee Maness, the first workman on the building, over-celebrated, became its first inmate...
Although "The Yeomen of the Guard" has many excellent songs and scenes, it is Jack Point, the unhappy Jester, who distinguishes the work. W. Barry Pennington plays the role with as complete a mastery as anyone could hope for in such a production. He projects Gilbert's conceits admirably, and at the same time is able to make the fool a genuinely pitiable character. There is more of the grumpily clever W. S. Gilbert in Point's lines than in those of any other part in the operas...
...think of banking," said Bank President Tony Burton in John P. Marquand's Point of No Return, "as . . . the most basically human business that there is in the world." Last week, Tony Burton got some backhanded support for his assertion from the FBI's Inspector Lee R. Pennington, who investigates bank frauds. Addressing a conference of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks in Washington, Pennington said that most of last year's frauds (total lost: $3,000,000) were traceable to some fairly common human failings: gambling, drink, women. High living, big debts, bad business management...
...Pennington did not think bankers had done all they could to forestall thefts; in many cases, he said, even a cursory check would have shown that the employees involved had been living far beyond their means. The FBIman suggested that bankers make a practice of giving their bookkeepers and tellers their vacations "during the period when statements are forwarded or passbooks balanced"-and check...