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...quietly to see her. On the Sunday of the recent plebiscite (TIME, Sept. 9), he dropped out of sight completely. The explanation was that he was "in the country with friends." The general supposition that he was in the country with his friend is borne out by the vigor with which his staff rejected all inquiries concerning his whereabouts at the time...
Like Toscanini, Steinberg never uses a score. Though his performances lack the Maestro's tuning-fork luster, he conducts with much the same bombastic vigor. To give cues, he waggles his head like an angry steer. At opera rehearsals he brays himself hoarse singing the leading roles stopping occasionally to munch a dry slice of pumpernickel...
Thorn of the Cactus. Between World Wars I & II, Palestine's population grew apace-the Jews largely by immigration, the Arabs by propagation. Arabs now number over one million, twice the 1922 figure; the Palestinian Jews number over half a million. The springs of Jewish colonizing vigor, amply fed by the money of world Jewry, flowed out on to the desert. U.S. Jews have contributed almost $100 million to Palestine, invested $50 million more. The "hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land," which Mark Twain saw in 1867, was dotted with green fields and citrus groves...
...progress since 1932. Most newcomers to Romains' encyclopedic study will experience the puzzlement of a pedestrian who suddenly sees the muddy, sweaty finalists pant past in the last stages of a transcontinental bicycle race. He has no idea of where they are pedaling to, no conception of the vigor and dash with which they began the contest. Nonetheless, he feels an instinctive desire to cheer -if only because he can see that they have come a long way in bad weather...
...Elyot Chase, Amanda's former husband and current lover a composition more likely drawn from Coward's experience than imagination Donald Cook works with much vigor. His portrayal of the decadent, effeminate male is, however, slightly overdone, and occasionally approaches the prissiness of Edward Everett Horton. Mary Mason, his uncon-summate wife, has an annoyingly shrill voice which would convincingly irritate any husband, onstage or off. Alexander Clark, as Victor Prynne, is described by his wife as "a fat old gentleman in a club armchair," and is just that...