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...lose his throne. England can not have such a king and be England still. The wind is whisking the newspapers around the room, under my feet they rip and tear and rustle. Camera shots, headlines. Where are there headlines in Shakespeare? Enter Henry Bolingbroke. Enter Stanley Baldwin. "The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin spent a quiet week-end at Chequers, their home in the country." Enter King Richard, attended. Enter the Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester. "The proper wife of the Duke of Gloucester, herself the daughter of a wealthy Scottish industrialist, leads a quiet social life and disapproves...
Last week neither Damrosch's music nor Guiterman's libretto could make their two-act opera entirely successful. Ignoring the possibilities of a rip-snorting plot, the score abounded in old turns and phrases, was at its best when it borrowed obviously from Wagner. Set songs were brought off skilfully but they often sounded banal. The text was happy, fitted the music better than most U. S. operas permit. Since opera needs a soprano, Authors Damrosch & Guiterman interpolated a new character, Mary Rutledge, as Nolan's sweetheart. When Philip is tried by a military tribunal, she nervously...
Opened last week by the arrival of the season's first boat was a rip-snorting gold rush into the Goodnews area of southwestern Alaska. In three days no less than 50 airplane flights were made from Anchorage, bearing prospectors to the sands of Kuskokwim Bay, where gold, platinum and palladium strikes had been reported. Overnight a tent city sprang up on the beach with all the trimmings of Klondike days, including a gaming brawl which required the attention of a Federal marshal and the ministrations of one Alice Forsgreen. "the lady barber" of nearby Bethel, who doubles...
Sometimes when waves are beating strongly on a beach, an extraordinary outward current of returning water develops, clashes with oncoming breakers, creates a zone of roil and foam called "rip tide." Last week just such a countercurrent of public opinion was beginning to run stronger & stronger against the surging Sit-Down. Governors White of Mississippi, worried about a pajama factory sitdown, and Allred of Texas, worried about the C. I. O. oil drive starting this week, announced that they would oppose Sit-Downs with all the force at their command. With many a State legislature discussing the subject, Vermont...
...Congress the two currents met at last in a genuine rip tide of debate...