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...Gabler" Henrik Ibsen must remain the outstanding attraction, Mrs. Paxinou interprets the role with challenging individuality. Her sensitivity and restraint as the neurotic and theatrical Hedda prevent her overdoing a part that can be easily overdone. No doubt "Hedda Gabler" profits from the fact that its star is no stranger either to Ibsen or the English language as a medium, having played in "Ghosts" on the London stage last year. It is to be hoped that the Greeks have many good words for Katina Paxinou. She deserves them...
...Britons, toasting each other at home or dancing in their favorite nightclubs, it was a strange celebration in a stranger time. Britain's Prime Minister was spending the last hours of 1941 in a train en route from Ottawa to Washington. Aristocratic Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, was just back from a conference in the Kremlin. The ghost of Neville Chamberlain might well have rubbed its eyes...
Unitarian. Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, Moderator: "The Unitarians have always admired the Samaritan who bound up the wounds of the stranger set upon by robbers, but today they work to rid the Jericho Road of thieves...
Single vehicles rush past. A lost truck stops and asks a wounded man where a certain regiment's headquarters have gone. :'Can't say," comes a Tommy's reply, "I'm a stranger 'ere myself...
Dublin-born Archie Nye is a virtual stranger to the British public, but General Dill refers to him as an officer "whom I have long marked out for rapid advance," and Winston Churchill is said to be equally interested...