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CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW (512 pp.)-Bryan MacMahon-Dutton...
...Profound Contempt." When the U.S. entered World War I, Wood signed up, sailed with the Rainbow Division under Douglas MacArthur, who was chief of staff and is still a close friend. Before long, Wood was ordered from France to Washington as acting quartermaster general, and promoted to brigadier general. In a short time, he reorganized the chaotic Army procurement. At war's end, Julius Thorne, a Wood aide who in civilian life was president of Montgomery Ward, took the general back there with...
...flags of 14 nations made a fluttering rainbow above the portals of the House of Europe in Strasbourg. Inside, before a semicircle of 200 desks, Belgium's portly Paul-Henri Spaak, president of the Consultative Assembly, spoke heatedly. His pugnacious lower lip was thrust forward, his left hand plunged into a pocket, accenting his resemblance to Winston Churchill...
However, P. J. Kelly--drafted from a straw-hat version of "Finian's Rainbow" last summer was always entertaining, affording some relief to the succession of gloomy tribulations. Beyond Kelly, the "Child of the Morning" has two attractions. If you have seen and enjoyed Ingrid Bergman's "Joan of Arc" by all means go to the Shubert and have a good burst of indignation at the inhumanity of humanity. Or if you enjoy seeing a pigtailed, mortal-saint attacked in her bedroom by Lucky Luciano's nephew, see the "Child of the Morning's" last...
...brought it there. For 75 minutes on opening night Judy burned up the boards with "electric excitement," paused occasionally to wipe her brow with a bright scarf ("It isn't very ladylike, but it's very necessary"), and sang such old favorites as Somewhere, over the Rainbow and The Trolley Song. One critic predicted the show would stay a year. Wrote Critic Ward Morehouse: "I doubt if there'll be another night like it during the entire theatrical season...