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...company began to hit its stride, a far smoother job was evidenced last night than was seen last week. The current play, presented on Broadway last season, is the story of a playboy heel engaged to a sweet kid, involving the inevitable appearance of one of his old abandoned flames. Supporting Madge Evans, Bob Perry, who also directed, does a good job and Louise Valery and Richard Hard are excellent. Lee Nugent needs more practice...
...winter storms were over. The fresh wind still snatched spindrift from the whitecaps in the narrows opposite Dover, as it did beyond in the North Sea, and around Cape Breton in the rough Bay of Biscay. But in the fjords, in the bays and river mouths, the way was smoother. Along the flat sand beaches and the rocky cliffs, around the peninsulas, along the marshes and the dikes the invasion season had begun...
...idea was to replace Laval by a gang of former politicians who would [privately] assure the Germans of their complete loyalty . . . appease public opinion . . . [and] provide a smoother transition should there be a successful U.S. landing. . . . Thus Pétain would no longer be regarded as the man who had wrecked the Republic; he would just have kept it in the twilight because of circumstances until he himself was ready of his own free will to restore democratic institutions...
...County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...
...Columnist Ernie Pyle discovered the Stevensons a few weeks ago, when he marveled at 25 Red Cross clubs-with lodgings, game rooms, snack bars, movies-which Bill had managed to set up in North Africa. And he wrote of Bumpy: "She is a sort of roving delegate, cheerer-upper, smoother-over and finder-outer for the whole Red Cross of Africa and half the Army...