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...because he did not know how to cook tempura (Japanese fried fish or shrimps) and declared that "all American women on Corregidor should be turned over to the Japanese for immoral purposes." Once, said Brown, he followed Provoo to the top of a hill where Provoo, clad in a shroud, "let out those wild Buddhist chants...
Since her operation Eva Perón made public appearances only at the opening of Congress in May and at the June 4 presidential inauguration, where her mink coat hung like a shroud. In the meantime, her followers have whipped up countless new tributes. Last week labor leaders ordered every wage earner in the country to give a day's pay toward building monuments to her. Reportedly, their plan was to build $42 million worth of spires, each 210 ft. tall, topped with statues of Eva, to stand in each of the provincial and territorial capitals in Argentina...
Briefly the plot has to do with the machinations of the mistress (Dorothy Stickney) and her cohort (Lulla Gear) in trying to get the husband (Neil Hamilton) to divorce the wife (Jean Dixon). Since the management takes great pains to shroud the denouncement in secrecy, I would't give it away; suffice it to say that it is unrealistic and unsatisfying. The acting was on the whole good, particularly that of Miss Stickney and Mr. Hamilton, until the last act when no one quite seemed to know what the author had in mind. Donald Oenslager's one set was admirable...
...Wild Duck (by Henrik Ibsen) opened the annual winter season at Manhattan's City Center. It also opened the door to a musty attic. Under the dust and cobwebs that shroud Ibsen's classic, there may still lie something vital. But far from uncovering it, the present production treasures every cobweb...
With the habitual, well-dressed air of weariness which he wears like a shroud, Scott Lucas laid aside FEPC. But "only temporarily," he said. They would get on with other pressing business, but they would come back to the FEPC fight...