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...rosy complexions of our sun-worshipping fourth company brethren are attributable to their romp with nature in the form of a skiing excursion to the North Conway trails last Saturday. If you're of like mind, there's a suggestion for the weekend. If not, here's another. A special leaves at 1225 tomorrow for Providence, R. I., where "they're off" at Narragansett at 1430. Naturally officers don't gamble, but servicemen are admitted free, and watching others get rich on Reyes in the fourth race will be a pleasant pastime...
Antiques. Best-liked British plays are both revivals: Congreve's Restoration romp, Love for Love, starring John Gielgud; and a superbly costumed An Ideal Husband by the epigrampa of them all, Oscar Wilde. Of An Ideal Husband (produced by Cinemactor Robert Donat), Critic Charles Edward Montague once said: "It proves how indolently a man of comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter...
...investigation" was California's fourth recent legislative romp into U.S.-Jap baiting. It was headed by a ruddy-faced Sacramento attorney, Chester F. Gannon, Legionnaire and key Republican member of the State Assembly. Although Marine Borchers' letter had started the fury, Gannon did not summon him as a witness. Gannon had his own views: "We have been told it would be unhealthy for Japanese-even American-born-to be seen on California streets, and that returning Marines and soldiers would slit their throats...
...Italy on Thanksgiving Day, a group of U.S. soldiers prepared to romp into a turkey dinner. Suddenly one of them stood up. He was a 22-year-old veteran pilot. He said: "Gentlemen, since this is Thanksgiving I would like to say grace." Everybody looked sheepish. Said a chaplain: "Lieutenant, I think that's a fine idea...
...late the Waller hands have not been idle. In the motion picture Stormy Weather (TIME, July 12), they caused a battered piano to romp in rare fashion. For the Broadway musical Early to Bed (TIME, June 28), the Waller right hand packed out the tunes. This week, back in Manhattan after a trip to Canada, Fats Waller was cooking up some new numbers...