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...praising "There's Always a Breeze," which he thought was funny, but which was apparently not funny, because it would be too bad if no one were to take any stock in the praise about to be lavished on Roland Young in Clare Kummer's new comedy, "Spring Thaw." The theme of this play is certainly no startling innovation: it is a recitation of the difficulties encountered by a middle-aged man trying to retain possession of both his giddy young wife and his wits. Nor is the dialogue, as written, particularly lustrous. But the play, as played, is certainly...
...Spring Thaw" was written for Roland, and his peculiar talents are catered to throughout. All that was necessary was to put the most obvious analysis of every situation into the tersest from and the simplest language, and to count on Mr. Young to do the rest. For example, when it is offered as an excuse to invite the doctor to dinner that he is still there, Roland drily explains that he won't be if he leaves. Some of the humor is indeed more complex than this sample. Some of it is even vaguely satirical. But none...
...infernally cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...
Peabody Museum: Hemenway fellowship, for the study of American Archaeology and Ethnology, to James H. Gaul, 3G, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Thaw fellowship to Frank C. Hibben, 1G, of Albuquerque, New Mexico...
Wounded and captured by Bulgarians in the last months of the War, Lieutenant De Queslain was put under the care of a tall, beautiful brunette doctor named Lena Apostolova, who resisted all his efforts to thaw out her businesslike manner. The only time she showed any feeling was when she talked about the Macedonian question, or when she told him about her past, an incredible autobiography revolving around massacres, torture, rape, underground terrorist activity. During the last big French attack, Lena discharged De Queslain as cured, left him to make his way with the retreating Bulgarians. When they next...