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Settings for any production of Peter Pan are an especial challenge since the script calls for seven different scene changes. However, William D. Roberts has provided some sparkling and highly imaginative ones for Group 20, complete with toadstool benches and a foldaway bed. Perhaps such a complicated show technically is a bit ambitious for a stage without a curtain. All set changes must be made by hand, and are, therefore, unduly long...
Star of the evening was Baritone Warren. He had a few bad moments when the audience first glimpsed his toadstool-shaped black armor and snickered. But he came through, as always, with sane, reliable singing in a beautiful voice. Bronx-born Baritone Warren spent a year and a half learning his part, and if he seemed just a bit boring as Charles V, it was probably because he understood the boring role so well...
...editors. Dahl has an unfunny one on the Watch and Ward, and there is an illegibly signed cartoon that picks off another one of television's sitting ducks. A couple of drawings seem to have appeared in the issue either by whim or mistake: a gnome creeping toward a toadstool which has a naked woman lying atop it, and a poorly-drawn baseball pitcher winding up on page 28 to throw to an unequally uninspiring batter on page...
...builders of Hoover Dam will spend 50,000,000 Federal dollars in and around Las Vegas, Nev. in the next eight years. In anticipation of this flood of cash, the little desert town, main-line rail base for the construction camps, has been swelling and swelling like a toadstool. Real estate has boomed, collapsed, boomed again. Night clubs opened up with show girls from Los Angeles. Speakeasies flourished, for Nevada has no dry law. Gambling resorts blossomed legally. Dam workers were to be separated from their pay checks as pleasantly as possible...
...infancy, Sylvia Thompson made up a story when she was four which her family still like better than anything she has written since. It ended: "And when she came around the corner, what do you think she saw? She saw the Fairy Queen and Queen Victoria sitting on a toadstool." Sylvia Thompson has also written: The Hounds of Spring, The Battle of the Horizons, Chariot Wheels...