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Love's Labour's Lost (by William Shakespeare) opened the season at Manhattan's City Center with a gay splash. The play is minor and rather poky Shakespeare, last seen on Broadway in the 1890s; but the present revival, if a dubious choice, takes a daring form. Love's Labour is offered as an elegant Edwardian frolic, half satiric comedy, half court masque. Alexander Pope was told of his translation of the Iliad: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Perhaps the City Center should not call this Shakespeare; perhaps...
BABAR'S VISIT TO BIRD ISLAND (40 pp.) -Laurent de Brunhoff-Random House ($3.50). What happens when a royal family of elephants pays a social visit to the Bird King & Queen, told with engaging naturalness by a French author-artist who knows how to splash his pages with vivid panoramic views that have what every child loves in a picture-a brilliant general impression combined with endless small details to be picked out at leisure...
...papers across the nation, the news broke with a splash. Headlined the New York World-Telegram and Sun: CROONER SENDS BLONDE INTO A TRANCE. Said the Long Beach Independent: LOVE SONG HYPNOTIZES BEAUTY. The Wichita Eagle carried a Page One picture of a "petite, shapely blonde, still unidentified . . . after she fell into a 'trance' while listening to Baritone Singer John Arcesi sing Lost in Your Love at a Las Vegas nightclub." U.P. and I.N.S. put the story on the wires. Though many newsmen suspected the story, they still ran it, and thus fell for one of the most...
...Nazis coming back? Last week, commenting on West Germany's local elections, some foreign newsmen seemed to think they are. New York Timesman Drew Middleton, who has been making predictions of a Nazi revival for years, reported the specter of German fascism overhanging every ballot box. Bonn protested "splash headlines" and "one-sided reporting" by foreign correspondents. Conditions in Germany, said Konrad Adenauer's press chief, are "extraordinarily stable"; the election proved that both left and right extremists are "steadily sinking in numbers...
John received his biggest publicity splash in 1933, the day after Harvard upset Yale by a 19 to 6 margin. Two days before the game, some gentlemen from the Lampoon abducted the Eli mascot, Handsome Dan II, from his New Haven kennel. The Sunday following the game, newspapers all over the nation ran frontpage photos of Dan licking John's feet--or, at any rate, his pedestal. The pictures did not reveal the raw hamburger that was smeared at the base of the statute...