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This Property Is Condemned, first of the three works, poses a difficult problem of interpretation which Director Colgate Salsbury fails to solve. Williams probably intended to give this sketch an ethereal quality. Yet the conversation between two young misfits, as they walk along the tracks of a Mississippi railroad, lends itself to this treatment only at the risk of becoming overly romantic. Instead, the Workshop performs it with chatty overtones, emphasizing the juvenile character of the leads...
...witnesses can swiftly sketch the indictment...
...neglected to add just how he would get rid of Chiang's 500,000 troops -unless Red China's armies do the job for him. "He could hardly have said more," wrote the Daily Telegraph, "without actually inviting the Communists to attack [Formosa]." Snapped the London Daily Sketch: "Attlee has dropped a brick that might do as much damage as the hydrogen bomb...
...puzzles, junior sports news, contests, do-it-yourself news, and comics, which has already reached a circulation of 1,300,000. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,077,835) followed with a tabloid Junior Express, last week sold more than 900,000 copies. The cheesecake-laden Daily Sketch inserted a Junior Sketch section in one of its regular editions, has upped its circulation more than 50,000. News-Chronicle admitted: "We are at the point of conception on a children's weekly, but hardly in labor...
...consisting of simple tunes with skeletal, guitarlike accompaniments, rang the bell. Composer Kay scoured source books for western tunes, came up with twelve of them, from Old Taylor, Rye Whisky and Lolly-Too-Dum to Red River Valley (which he used as a unifying theme). Balanchine took the piano sketch to his rehearsal hall and roughed in dance movements with his company. When Balanchine & Co. got back from a successful West Coast tour last month, the score was ready. Last week in Manhattan, the New York City Ballet presented its premiere under the title Western Symphony...