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...written by Sophocles, the play tells the story of Oedipus' daughter Antigone, whose two brothers kill each other in a quarrel over who shall succeed their dead father. When Creon, Antigone's uncle, takes the throne, he issues his edict that one of the brothers must lie unburied, as a lesson that the law must be enforced. Protesting this indignity, Antigone twice attempts to bury the body. Her efforts fail, she is caught and condemned to death, finally commits suicide...
...make capital out of the U.S. Blue Book charges (TIME, Feb. 18), called them undiplomatic, then himself screamed: "crude lies." To a reporter he blandly declared: "If I'm a fascist, you are Mary Pickford." But the Strong Man's attempt to make the election a personal quarrel with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden ("Perón or Braden, that is the issue"), got a jolt when Harry Truman stated flatly that, as President, he stood behind every word in the Blue Book...
...best wartime program in radio was not heard by U.S. civilians. Called Command Performance (TIME, March 8,1943), it brought together each week the big names in show business. When servicemen overseas requested a sigh from Carole Landis or an ad-lib quarrel between Jack Benny and Fred Allen, they got it. Such high-priced talent, donated as a war service, could not possibly be financed by commercial radio. But last week an economy-size version called Request Performance was well on its way to stardom...
Hedy Lamarr was "terribly hurt." Her third husband, Actor John Loder, had walked out on her two weeks before and she hadn't seen him since. Said she: "We had a quarrel." Overshadowed Actor Loder had been terribly hurt, too, reported Gossipist Hedda Hopper. She figured that the beginning of the end was when he failed to bag a leading role in famed Wife Hedy's latest picture...
...very young goes into four acts which is not the same no not the same as Four Saints in Three Acts. She hoped that it would hit Broadway after it played Pasadena next March. "I think this play is very interesting," said Playwright Stein in Paris: it had a quarrel in every act, and "a love element . . . the young man . . . had a tendresse for his brother's wife, which is often the case in France, you know...