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Scandalized Scandinavians. While hanging on at Louisiana's tough Angola Penitentiary, Labat changed himself from a semiliterate hospital worker to something of a poet and painter. In 1963, Angola officials handed him a world fame of sorts by barring his correspondence with Mrs. Solveig Johanson, a Swedish housewife in Stockholm who had become interested in the case. One official claimed that Louisiana law forbade Negroes to correspond with whites. This was later revised by the statement that prison rules limited access to any prisoner on Death Row to his immediate family and his legal and spiritual counselors. The incident...
Curtain Call. Neurologist Brain refused to try to adjudicate between physical and psychological explanations of mental states. But he could not resist a dig at the extreme Freudians: "You will recall the moving end of Peer Gynt, where Peer finds Solveig . . . and realizes that she is both wife and mother . . . If, as the curtain falls, a psychoanalyst in the seat behind you whispers: 'Oedipus complex!', do you understand the play better or enjoy it more...
...Sylvia is the Girl Scouts' "ideal" name. Unfortunately at Briarcliff the nearest thing to a bona fide Sylvia was one Solveig (Pahle) from Oslo, 18 years old, a four-language polyglot...
Separated. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., 24, film actor; and Joan Crawford Fairbanks, 25 this week, film actress; the day after one Jorgen Dietz, Danish chemical engineer, sued Fairbanks for $50,000 for alienation of his divorced wife Solveig's "maliciously debauched" affections and for $20,000 for four hours' false imprisonment last December when Fairbanks charged extortion. Said Mrs. Fairbanks: "The Dietz suit has nothing to do with our separation. We've really been separated a whole year. This is the only brave thing for us to do." Mrs. Dietz in Copenhagen said Fairbanks would...
...Bang recited several of the most effective scenes of "Peer Gynt," and Miss Dahl interpolated with delightful expression the songs of Solveig in the forest. Mr. Bang's rendition was animated and dramatic and engaged the close attention of a large and interested audience...