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Brunswick, Me., Summer Playhouse: Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon's Broadway blended with the best of Tin Pan Alley...
William Roberts' set is imaginative and functional, though the shutter effect is very reminiscent of the projections used in the Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. In both costumes and lighting there is a lack of warmth and color, which seem so essential to an author as color-conscious as Williams...
...whether or not the Queen's route should take her past the old people's home. A note of outrage was sounded in the Montreal Gazette when an indignant royalist reader protested against Canada's No. 1 hit song, The Battle of New Orleans, a catchy Tin Pan Alley jape about the rout of the British in the War of 1812: "I do suggest that this song be removed from the radio before Her Majesty's visit; otherwise she may get the impression that we are sadly lacking in manners...
When the wind is still, a strange and pungent odor rises over the pleasant resort city of Durban on the Indian Ocean. It comes usually from the tin-shanty slum of Cato Manor to the west, where, ever since the Union government forbade blacks to drink anything alcoholic other than the watery government beer served in municipal bars, Zulu women have been brewing a crude moonshine of their own. A high-power popskull made of methylated spirits, carbide, potato peels or just about anything else that will ferment, this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source...
...Army," says one, "you don't have much to say about whether you're going to march the next morning. We don't have much sense of participation." But the feeling is general that the strike is inevitable. A shear operator at a Jones & Laughlin tin mill shrugged his broad shoulders and said: "The men don't want a strike, and they don't want raises. They don't know what the union does, but they have blind faith. They'll back the union so its position won't be weakened...