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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fancy Front. Goldschmidt went to hear grey, 61-year-old Paul Paray of the Paris Concerts Colonne direct Beethoven's Eroica at Santiago's ancient Teatro Municipal. As usual, he did not like it. "It wasn't Beethoven," he wrote. "It was a fancy front with nothing behind...
Virginia, the only school to be played away from the Stadium except Yale, has set a $3.60 price on tickets for the Harvard contest, with season ticket holders getting the usual fifty percent reduction...
Although the traveling layoff bodes no good for the Bolles' sweepswingers, the entire Seattle entry list is aboard the train and forced to accept the same conditioning hazard. For this reason, prior physical conditioning will play a heavier role than usual; and before entraining, Bolles happily stated that his boys were in tip-top shape...
...through the red marble portals of Lenin's tomb, you automatically take your hat off. . . . You have been visiting a shrine. . . . Communism is now a fully fledged religion which claims to be of universal application. . . . It has a tremendous literature of commentary and exegesis, and all the usual saints and martyrs and heresies. . . . It is rigidly orthodox and highly fanatical. . . . And this . . . religion has really got a grip on the world...
...pleasant enough fun, and pretty to watch. Harrison, apparently modeling himself after Bernard Shaw as a boy of 40, sports a handsome beaver. Miss Tierney wears beautiful turn-of-the-century dresses designed by her former husband, Oleg Cassini; her acting is neither better nor worse than usual. Edna Best is skilled and sweet as her maid, and George Sanders obviously enjoys playing a ninny, for a change, instead of the velvet scourge of womankind...