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Sadie Thompson (adapted from John Colton's and Clemence Randolph's Rain by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke and Mr. Dietz; produced by A. P. Waxman) is more frost than Rain. Behind the famous play of the missionary who brought a scarlet woman to God only to be himself ensnared by the Devil there was a steady theatrical drive. In Sadie Thompson that drive is halted by every song, every dance, every stage procession...
...social events. Crowds jampacked the Cour d'Assises, in Paris' Palais de Justice, where Marie Antoinette had heard her death sentence pronounced. Among them was many a chic, smartly-gowned woman. Over the sea of heads few could see more than the naked statues looming behind the scarlet-and-ermine-clad judge, or catch more than brief glimpses of the begowned prosecutors, defense counsel and defendants. But all listened in a silence unusual in French courtrooms...
...walking along a houseless stretch, was to spot a soldier on the top of a lorry changing trousers (the insides of the lorries were packed full with stores). At the crucial moment, when I was sure I'd have to turn about, he turned, saw me, colored as scarlet as I felt, clutched his trousers, and held them like grim death...
...North and South Carolina, the total of 3,091 cases being 600 ahead of the same period last year. Last year's total: 4,533. (Some experts thought the real figure would be nearer 45,000 if doctors did not often diagnose the disease as measles, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pneumonia...
...soldier swapped a 2-lb. can of coffee for a bright scarlet dress in Schiaparelli's shop. Eyeing the coffee greedily, the Schiaparelli manager moaned: "Vous êtes dur, monsieur...