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...house, the theatre has been running re-issues. (Re-issues are brand new prints, with new sound-tracks, of old pictures). The change-over wasn't premeditated: strikes and allotment limitations in Hollywood forced an expedition into the files which exhumed films as much as ten years old--"Sylvia Scarlet." "Naughty Marietta," "Pot O' Gold," "Snow White," and the like...
...older, wiser Churchill, in the scarlet robe of an (honorary) Oxford Doctor of Civil Laws, last week added two more honorary degrees to his now considerable string. The newest: a Doctor of Laws from the University of Miami, another from Westminster College. In Miami, Dr. Churchill plucked some ripe thoughts about education. Said...
...Cabinet appeared in evening dress. But leftist Health Minister Aneurin Bevan inevitably went in a sack suit, his leftist-M.P. wife Jennie Lee in her usual red tweed coat and lizard-skin shoes. Outside the royal box there were only two tiaras. And Covent Garden's scarlet-&-gold opulence had been restored mostly by mere elbow grease. Explained the manager: "Very little new paint has been used, and then only in cases where it was necessary for cleanliness. . . . There is hardly a spot of new gilt anywhere in the theater...
...first time the Marine dance band had played in the White House since 1941. But its 13 scarlet-jacketed musicians were no strangers to the executive mansion. As members of the 85-member Marine Band, and the 20-piece Marine symphony orchestra, they get to almost all presidential social functions. At receptions, they march guests in with tunes like Under the Starry Banner, march them out to Loyal Comrades. Says blue-eyed, dimpled Captain William F. Santelmann, director of the three-in-one band: "The effect on the guests is psychological. Something about the tempo of a march makes...
Corner-of-the-mouth sociology, good acting, and modern art (primitives that will make art lovers of the calendar lithograph class gasp) give "Scarlet Street" a sophisticated ugliness that is appealing, if only because of its brass...