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Rigoletto & Lady Zorro. Along Blackpool's strand last week, 14 vaudeville and burlesque houses were offering everything from rock 'n' roll to arias from Rigoletto, and a "direct from America" girly show featuring a black-masked nude known as Lady Zorro. There was a puppet show, an acrobatic act, a North American dog act, and a show called Don't Stop, You're Killing Me, a revue thinly disguised as melodrama, which incorporated a squad of "police" who, more or less as if sent by Luigi Pirandello, entered the theater telling everyone in the audience...
...latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two groups of Harvard biochemists, one led by Dr. Julius Marmur, the other by Dr. Paul M. Doty, published reports titled: "Strand Separation and Specific Recombination in Deoxyribonucleic Acids." Behind that formidable title was the kind of excitement that makes scientists glad they are scientists: in their studies of DNA, Marmur and Doty had probed close to the innermost secrets of life...
...carried before-in the Crusades, with the expansion of the Latin empires in America, finally in the great 19th century advance of Protestant missions, when eager young ministers streamed out of U.S. seminaries, hungry to save the heathen "from Greenland's icy mountains, from India's coral strand." They accomplished mighty works, particularly in hygiene and education; many of today's new African leaders were educated at mission schools...
...wrote. The play had been little more than "an overextension of a quite small idea." The practice of turning reviewers inside out is hardly exclusive to Broadway. Last week in London, the Daily Telegraph's exacting critic, W. A. Darlington, fumed over a sign outside the Strand Theater quoting him as urging the public: BY ALL MEANS GO AND SEE THIS PLAY. "If triviality is what you happen to be wanting," Darlington had actually written of The More the Merrier, "by all means go and see this play...
...there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived. "Born under a stump, suckled on sow bear milk and raised in jail," he proclaims. "I know every root in these parts, every huckleberry meadow, bee tree, strand of swamp grass and skunk-cabbage patch. To hunt bears, you've got to be as tough as a good old bear dog. Well, I'm tough, and I'm the best there is." He is probably right...