Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inescapable Implication. Hoxha's feud with Britain went beyond diplomatic skirmishing. Last May the British cruisers Orion and Superb were cruising in the Strait of Corfu, a 2-to 15-mile-wide corridor between Albania and the Greek island of Corfu. An Albanian shore battery opened fire, missed. Last month the Royal Navy destroyers Saumarez and Volage, cruising in the same Strait, ran into mines, were crippled. Casualties totaled 38 dead, 50 injured. British indignation was heated. Said a high-ranking Royal Navy officer: "There's no difference between this and bombing the British Home Fleet at Scapa...
Henry V.--The Laurence Olivier production of the Shakespearean classic rolls into the thirty-fifth week of its only New England engagement, at the Esquire Theatre opposite Symphony Hall. It is really every bit as good as it is cracked up to be, with superb acting and direction contributed by Olivier, with help from Reen Asherton and other British stars, and outstandingly original music by William Walton. If you have not yet seen it, by no means neglect the chance--and even if you have, it would probably be worth a second viewing...
...Turning Point (Lenfilm-Arikino) is a Russian-made semi-documentary billed as the "inside story" of the siege of Stalingrad. The film is superb Soviet propaganda, an interesting historical footnote to one of World War II's decisive battles-and surprisingly exciting entertainment...
John Holabird made possibly the greatest single contribution to the production with his superb sets, which illumined even the melancholy confines of Sanders. The direction, by Andrew McCollough, was adequate in most cases with a striking exception in one scene in which an orator was placed inconveniently with his back to most of the audience...
Last Friday's Symphony concert dramatized for the music-lovers of Boston the essentially two-sided nature of their famous orchestra--its superb accomplishments in certain fields and at the same time its doubtful musical taste, unchangingly puzzling from year to year...