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...voluntary allocations plan of their own, feared that if the military got all it wanted, ECA and other vital civilian programs would suffer and the "nonessential" users of hard-to-get steel would starve. Despite White House assurance that the law would not be used recklessly, George A. Renard, executive secretary of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, protested that it opened a "Pandora's box of controls." Mindful of the wartime jungle of red tape, one manufacturer fervently prayed that "every second lieutenant in the armed forces would not slap on priorities for everything purchased for national defense...
...open to subscribers only ($15 and up). Last week, in Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse, subscribers saw their second show. There were two new ballets by Balanchine. Critics (whose papers had to buy them memberships to get them in) liked best his linear Divertimento, had kind words for Renard the Fox, to music by Stravinsky. Ballet Society has commissioned scores by Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith and Aaron Copland. Says Choreographer Balanchine: "In spite of all we have done, Americans do not appreciate ballet unless you bring something from Europe. We want to show that Americans are good...
...Hindu myths from which those fables came. In the 19th Century, philologist and fairytale-teller Jacob Grimm republished the story with all the gusty lustiness of earlier tellings; in a politer version Goethe made an epic poem of it. No less than 27 episodes of Le Roman de Renard were penned in medieval France. The last of these formed the basis of the Flemish-Dutch poem from which Caxton made his translation...
...Time Goes By was sung in a Broadway show called Everybody's Welcome, recorded by Rudy Vallee (Victor) and Jacques Renard (Brunswick). Forty thousand discs were sold and then the tune dropped from U.S. memory. Composer Hupfeld, who in his time had turned out such Tin Pan Alley hits as Sing Something Simple and When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba, came to the conclusion that he was through. For ten years he seemed to be right...
...Knew Europe. Since Dooley started, As Time Goes By has sold over 300,000 copies. Recording companies, searching their files for the old Vallee and Renard records, have found their biggest bonanza since Boss Petrillo's ban on popular recording (TIME, June 22). While that ban exists, no disc can be made of Dooley's version. But both Dooley and Dodo are doing all right...