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Carib Song (book & lyrics by William Archibald; music by Baldwin Bergersen; produced by George Stanton) is an all-Negro folk-fandango laid in the West Indies. A "musical play," Carib Song unfolds a triangle story so lethargic and sedate that it virtually libels the reputation of the tropics. The love story, moreover, is pretty much buried in native dialect (e.g., "I ain't know") and local customs, ranging from God-fearing church-going to god-fearing voodoo. All this is now & again picturesque but never dramatic. Carib Song owes its best moments to the dancing of Katherine Dunham...
...Gulf Oil and North American executives at last week's ceremony needed all the postwar vision they could muster. Their mile-long airstrips, built to handle planes of domestic transport size, were deep in snow. The day's chief speaker, CAA's Deputy Administrator Charles I. Stanton, was scheduled to fly to a dramatic, ribbon-cutting landing at the field. Grounded by the snowstorm, he arrived by train and auto hours late for the dedication...
Labeled Portrait of an Officer, Artist Unknown, it looked like a good, average, 18th-Century antique wall-piece, the kind that lends hints of lineage to a paneled drawing room. Bailey Stanton, Chicago lawyer and amateur art collector, liked it enough to buy it at auction...
...Collector Stanton showed his Officer to Dr. Maurice Goldblatt, director of the University of Notre Dame art galleries. "My God, you've got something there," said Dr. Goldblatt, who once helped the Louvre authenticate its famed Mona Lisa. He was, in fact, "90% sure it was a Trumbull" (John Trumbull, 18th-Century American historical painter and portraitist). Later he raised his assurance to 100%. And it was probably a portrait of Lafayette...
Collector Stanton and Authority Goldblatt think the Officer is a better Trumbull than the famed Alexander Hamilton now in the National Gallery in Washington...