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...company began to hit its stride, a far smoother job was evidenced last night than was seen last week. The current play, presented on Broadway last season, is the story of a playboy heel engaged to a sweet kid, involving the inevitable appearance of one of his old abandoned flames. Supporting Madge Evans, Bob Perry, who also directed, does a good job and Louise Valery and Richard Hard are excellent. Lee Nugent needs more practice...
Saturday's climax contest followed games played the week before with the Boston Lacrosse Club and Governor Dummer Academy. The Lacrosse Clubbers edged out the Johnnies 7 to 6, but the Harvard ten took Dummer in their stride by a 10 to 5 count
...Most youngsters his age would be bubbling over if they were in his position. But [he] takes it in his stride. He has an inherent sense of balance and proportion on the ground as well as in the air which this correspondent believes is so well rooted nothing will upset it. ... He has a touch of iciness ... of truly Arctic proportions. . . . But this kid is a 'speed demon'. . . . Numerous white hairs have been caused by his jeep-driving. . . . [He] apparently has a notion that cars were made to travel on two wheels...
...heavy bombers did not really hit their stride until the beginning of 1944. In the three months since Jan. 1, they have flown about as many missions, dropped about as many bombs as in the previous 16½ months. In January and February German single-engine fighter production was cut by two-thirds, twin-engined fighter production slightly more ("that does not mean, however, that . . . production capacity has been permanently reduced to that extent...
...full nationalistic stride, the Soviet Union last week got around to honoring the man who did more than any other to make Russian music Russian-genial, bush-bearded Nikolai Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of his birth. The composer of Scheherazade and 15 operas (Coq d'Or, the Snow Maiden, etc.) was the most scholarly member of the famed "Five" (the others: Mussorgsky, Balakireff, Borodin, Cui) who in the '60s weaned Russian music from the influence of German Romanticism and Italian opera. He was also the author of important treatises on harmony and orchestration...