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...also a less poetic one. In The Tempest, with its wonderful language, words speak louder than actions; not everybody in the Webster production knew how to utter them. Arnold Moss was a sonorous and commanding Prospero, Frances Heflin a sensitive Miranda. But as Ariel, Ballerina Vera Zorina let a good many speeches dwindle, and her grace was cold rather than sunlit. As Caliban, Negro Actor Canada Lee could not (like Shakespeare) make poetry of ugliness. Stressing the rather dull comedy also shattered the mood; the revolving stage was more practical than atmospheric. This generation may never see a livelier Tempest...
...results of their adventure. They had accounted for some 150 bridges, 50 roadblocks, 20 to 30 ferries, one tunnel, an assortment of locomotives, trucks, army hostels, one Catholic mission and a machine shop. But they had helped slow the Japanese advance on Kweichow, had helped save from utter disaster the great retreat in Southeast China...
...three of its crew had slipped from its net and had been fished out. The destroyer's skipper, noticing that Ladwig's breath was fumy with gasoline, ordered the ship's smoking lamp doused (i.e., "no smoking"). Only then did Ladwig feel it was safe to utter a long "Whew...
...enough to set anyone thinking with no unconcern about what he is doing on this planet and why. It is very doubtful whether many Army nurses react to their dynamic surroundings in quite the way Bernice does, and it is a tribute to Miss Lawrence's personal charm and utter sincerity of portrayal that matters do not get unconvincing...
Veteran correspondents aboard the Dewey train had never seen such a campaign. Those who had been on the fabled Willkie "crusade" of 1940 found this one very different. Four years ago they had clambered out from morning to night to hear the Willkie back-platform utterances, had ridden with the candidate through streets lined from curb to storefronts with cheering spectators. (The veterans also recalled the utter confusion of the Willkie campaign, and the blur it had left in the minds of voters...