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...Waves, most ambitious, least tea-cuppy of Virginia Woolf's books, like most of her books is startlingly original in method. As a kind of prolog you are treated to a description of dawn over the English coast; this scene comes in again a little later, when the sun has risen-and so on, till night has fallen again. The story proper is written entirely in direct discourse which is really soliloquy, shading sometimes into a kind of ghostly dialog. Except for the inevitable "said Bernard" 's and "said Louis" 's there is not a word...
...second of Philadelphia's great medical Da Costas last week delivered his valedictory to Medicine, his prolog to Death. When Jacob Mendez Da Costa (1833-1900) died, the profession summed up its reverence for him in the title, "physicians' physician." The eulogy "surgeons' teacher" is ready for John Chalmers Da Costa, no kin of Dr. Jacob. He has taught in Philadelphia more than 40 years...
...towheaded Sidney B. Wood Jr. of New York. Wood had played Vines twice before and beaten him once. The night before the final he told friends that he "had Vines's number." Nobody was much excited when Vines lost the first set?his slow start had been the familiar prolog of his brilliance. He started the second set by winning two games in cyclonic style. They were the last he won. Self-contained, graceful Wood, master of backcourt elegance and a competent volley, was softballing Vines out of his game. In every other match the Californian had undone his opponents...
...Next Room (First National). This is slightly better fun thau most program mystery-melodramas. It begins in 1889, with a carefully dated prolog showing a husband of the period getting rid of his wife's lover in a mysterious and dreadful manner. Newspaper clippings bring up to date the dark history of the Manhattan house where this happening took place to 1929, where the modern mystery phase begins, involving the usual detectives, reporters, antique cabinets, stolen jewels, corpses. Best shot: the farewell of the lover...
...Next Room (First National). This is slightly better fun thau most program mystery-melodramas. It begins in 1889, with a carefully dated prolog showing a husband of the period getting rid of his wife's lover in a mysterious and dreadful manner. Newspaper clippings bring up to date the dark history of the Manhattan house where this happening took place to 1929, where the modern mystery phase begins, involving the usual detectives, reporters, antique cabinets, stolen jewels, corpses. Best shot: the farewell of the lover...