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...fifty-third production the Cercle Francais presented a new play by ex-Harvard Professor Baldensberger on the tempting theme of Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess. This version of the story may be good French literature, but it certainly is not good theatre. It has an undoubted appeal for the many students who can understand French when it is spoken rapidly, but apart from this esoteric group the appeal is definitely limited, since a reading knowledge will not suffice...
...though you will certainly never have one like him, and probably won't miss the pleasure, he is a handy little lad when it comes to preserving the integrity and unity of that fine old American institution, home-life in New York. From dawn till dusk this knee-pant Trojan wages attrition warfare against the temptations to which his weaker-willed parents are subjected: a sheik-like artist in the case of his portraitgenic mother, and a dove-like matron innocently laying the net for his father. Lily Cahill, la mere; Jay Fassett, le pere, Eddie Nugent, le beau...
Simultaneously Scripps-Howard news coverage of Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler's isolationist crusade fell into more normal perspective. Senator Wheeler's attack on Wendell Willkie as "the intrepid Trojan horse of the Republican Party"-a likely candidate for the front page a few days earlier-appeared quietly on page 17 of the New York World-Telegram. And word was reputed to have gone down to Publisher Howard's editors to lay off hereafter such features as the identification-tag melodrama...
...formidable force. Meanwhile China's practically autonomous Communist Government had brought pressure on Chiang to allow its crack Eighth Route Army to move from the barren northwestern provinces into the rich Valley of the Yangtze. Fearing that the Fourth Route Army plus the Eighth might be two Trojan Horses in his camp, Chiang ordered General Yeh to march his Army northward out of the Valley. Instead, the Army marched southward. South of the river, it met Chiang's Central Army and somebody opened fire...
Displaying a fresh nutbrown beard, plump, exuberant Author Christopher Morley played Pandarus, a wily, two-timing businessman of Troy, in the Roslyn, L. I. production of his play, The Trojan Horse. All authors (notably Chaucer and Shakespeare) who wrote about Troilus and Cressida, explained Playwright Morley, wore beards...