Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirt-Sleeves Trend. What bothered Sara Roosevelt more was that Franklin seemed to be slipping away from her. She and "dear Franklin" argued over the role he should play in life. In a long, grande dame letter to "Dearest Franklin and Dearest Eleanor" she wrote: "The foolish old saying 'noblesse oblige' is good and 'honneur oblige' possibly expresses it better for most of us. One can be as democratic as one likes, but... we owe a great example." She sorrowed over "the trend to 'shirt sleeves...
...Japanese discovered who he was by stumbling on to a recording of a Mozart duo he had made years ago with his good friend, Violist-Composer Paul Hindemith. When the Japanese demanded that he play it for them, he begged off: "The other man is not here." When he told them that Hindemith was in New York, the Japanese replied: "Ah, we will get him then when we capture New York...
...setting is a Middle European monarchy during World War II. Most of the play takes place in 1943 when the monarch, feeling that Hitler's goose is cooked, is ready to talk turkey with the Social Democrats and Communists. Hoederer, the Communist leader (Charles Boyer), believes that for tactical reasons the party should join in a coalition. To the party purists this is treason, and they install an idealistic young convert (John Dall) as Hoederer's secretary, with orders to kill him. While the squeamish secretary is funking the assignment, his wife (Joan Tetzel) falls in love with...
...with political types rather than political tenets, and by suggesting that it takes a good many kinds of people to make up even a Communist world. The essential struggle between idealist and realist, absolutist and compromiser, is indeed common to all movements; what might be considered "anticommunist" about the play is its picturing a lack of charity that begins at home...
Today the varsity travels down to MIT to play against the Engineers...