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...Book. Readers of Retreat from Rostov found Novelist Hughes's mid-Oklahoma notion of Russia and the war a view of uninhibited proportions. The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood...
Miss Jean Arthur is a personable young New Yorker on a gruesomely predigested bus tour of the prewar West. The tour begins to interest her when, at a rodeo, bronco-busting John Wayne falls on, and all but busts, her. The pair recuperate in a deafening Western barroom, involve themselves in a saloon free-for-all, settle down to their essential business on a hay wagon and, after Miss Arthur misses her bus, in a sinister small-town hotel...
Friday Evening, May 28 Overture: Poet and Peasantvon Suppe Suite from "Rodeo" Copland Warsaw Concerto Addinsell (Piano: Leo Litwin) Brazil Barroso Saturday Evening, May 29 Overture: "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Concerto in F Gershwin (Piano: Jesus Maria Sanroma) Suite from Ballet: "Sylvia" Delibes Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saons "On the Trail," from Grand Canyon Suite Grofe Sunday Evening, May 30 No concert
...being oppressively rustic. It boasts no musicomedy names and nothing much in the way of a book. But Composer Rodgers (working for the first time in his Broadway career without Lyricist Lorenz Hart) has turned out one of his most attractive scores, and Choreographer Agnes de Mille (the ballet Rodeo) has created some delightful dances. Even run-of-de-Mille dances have more style and imaginativeness than most Broadway routines, while the best are almost in a different world...
...four years Thurman Wesley Arnold (ex-Yale law professor, former mayor of Laramie, Wyo.) had ridden herd on trusts like a paunchy cowboy. He had corralled more monopolies, obtained more indictments of corporations and labor unions than any other man in history. Last week his trust-busting rodeo was over. To the Senate the President sent his nomination to be an associate justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...