Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco last spring, Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco van Kleffens chided the big powers for preferring "to rely on their own strength rather than upon world government." In Java last week the little power acted precisely like a big power...
...proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious colonials...
...from 7:15 to 8 o'clock, there will be a concert, in which members of the house will participate. Francois G. Leydet '48, pianist, will play the Chopin "Revolutionary Etude" and the Mozart "Fantasia." Mozart's Clarinet Concerto will be performed by Don Mishara '46, accompanied by Nicholas Van Slyck Occ. An original work by Van Slyek, "Sonats for Trumpet and Piano", will be played by the composer and Hugh L. Whitehouse...
...Mermaids Singing (by John van Druten; produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) puts a pleasant little bauble in a very large box and fills in all the open spaces with tissue paper. The result, as always with an overwrapped gift, is disappointing...
Their rather thin love makes a rather thin love story. The girl (well-played by attractive Beatrice Pearson) is understandable and fairly real; but the man (well enough played by Walter Abel) is not convincing. Nor has Playwright van Druten sufficiently concentrated on The Mermaids Singing as a romantic duet. He has thrown in a mixed choir of nonfunctional minor characters who spoil the play's tone and slacken its tempo...