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Billion Dollar Baby (books & lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Morton Gould; produced by Paul Feigay & Oliver Smith) takes a cockeyed look, through purple-colored glasses, at the fantastic '20s. In a swirl of burlesque it lurches through speakeasies, totters through dance marathons, plugs racketeers, pummels gold diggers, plays hob with billionaires. Almost all of it is bold and un-Broadwayish, and bits and pieces of it are delightful. But as a whole, it doesn't quite come...
...Winnipeg Ballet came home in triumph last week from its first tour of the cow country and wheatlands to the West. Receipts for the swirl through Regina, Saskatoon and Edmonton did not quite meet expenses, but there were satisfying compensations. Wrote the Regina Leader-Post's critic: "Ballet is in Regina to stay...
...Karl Hofer, 67, a steady follower of Cázanne, and a venerated teacher at the Berlin Academy until the Nazis, kicked him out. In 1938, the Carnegie International jury gave its $1.000 first prize to Hofer's The Wind, which pictured two defenseless figures huddling against a swirl ; it might well have been the ill wind faced by non-Nazi Germans. Herr Goebbels, the furious Fährer of Nazi art, who had previously let Hofer paint but not exhibit in Germany, thereupon forbade him to paint at all. But Hofer managed to keep at it- although...
...that part of the charge may be produced "at the birth of the snow crystals in the upper atmosphere," when "tiny water droplets'' combine to form a flake with a smaller total surface than that of the separate drops and hence a higher potential. As the flakes swirl downward they presumably pick up more electrons...
Mused Dr. Caldwell: "I wonder if the presence of repellent charges on flakes is responsible for the curious way they swirl down sometimes, always keeping clear of each other. Could...