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...played by Arthur Treacher). But the tone of the play is prevailingly wry and ironic. The air seems very chill at times for all the Mediterranean sunlight. A bald and aging conqueror withholds his heart from a violent young girl rather than have her torture it; then, with a rueful smile, promises to send her a dashing young Marc Antony. "Murder shall breed murder . . ." he laments, "until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand." But as he goes out, and the final curtain falls, it is to the upraised swords of his soldiers...
When he is asked to describe his Government career, 55-year-old Assistant ECAdministrator Wayne Chatfield Taylor gives a rueful one-word reply: "Bruises." A New Deal stalwart for 17 years, ex-Investment Banker Taylor picked up many a bump as Assistant AAAdministrator, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of Commerce (he directed the famous wartime eviction of Sewell Avery from Montgomery Ward), and president of the Export-Import Bank...
...moment. It refurbishes old situations with such new gadgets as Geiger counters; it endows standard roles with new wrinkles. The Russian spy (suavely played by John Wengraf) is a cynical worldling whose motive is money, not Marx; the chief intelligence officer (winningly played by Lee Tracy) is a humorously rueful fellow who has a horror of muffing his assignment...
...Reimann's henchmen were fined $150 and $90 for holding a political meeting without a permit. When the day's hearings were over, Reimann was carried off in triumph by Reds who sang the Internationale and shouted: "Down with the Ruhr statute-down, down, down!" A rueful Briton admitted: "It looks as if the trial is backfiring...
Hands Across the Ages. In New Delhi, people gave Lord Mountbatten an endless and slightly rueful round of farewell parties. Preparing to take his place was Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (conveniently known as "C.R."), one of the Congress Party's austere leaders (he neither smokes, drinks nor goes to the movies). If the Dominion of India decides to break away from the British Commonwealth, C.R. will be its last Governor General. Said he last week: "I shall have to shake hands with Warren Hastings* across the ages, saying, 'You were the first and I am the last in your noble...