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...makes happy children happier and good teachers better, and at his Midtown School in Hollywood's Silver Lake district, he has taken it to new heights. The children may write on the walls, throw sand and food at each other, shun their classes and practice card tricks and wander about the fanciful school grounds all day, smiling at the wonder of it all. The teachers, wary of inhibiting the children, let them do whatever they want to do, and what they usually want to do is play...
...buildings, classes are in session: arithmetic is cutting up an apple pie and observing how it disappears as it is eaten. The children may lie on the floor and chat with each other while the teacher recites the lesson and, if even that bores them, they are free to wander outside to play among the jungle gyms, the playboats and sandboxes, the swings and the barbecue pit. If a teacher asks for a composition, she is the one who gets out the pad and pencil; the student will dictate it to her and she will type...
...Chickens wander at high noon along the seven-block stretch of Hendrick Boulevard, the town's main street. There are only about six sturdy downtown buildings; most of the others are empty, or sagging so dangerously that pedestrians step out into the street to avoid them. There seems, in fact, no reason whatever for the continued existence of Wink-except for the surprising fact that the U.S. is forking out more than $1.000,000 to rebuild the town...
...MUSICALS: George Gobel. making his Broadway debut, will wander innocently through a scrimmage of pimps, hoods and horseplayers in Let It Ride, a musical version of the 1935 George Abbott and John Cecil Holm farce, Three Men on a Horse (Oct. 6). Milk and Honey, set in Israel and involving American tourists, stars Yiddish Comedienne Molly Picon (Oct. 10). How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying may reveal some of the inner secrets of its director, Abe Burrows, riding a score by Guys and Dolls' Frank Loesser (Oct. 14). Man at the crossroads in Africa is the subject...
...shortens his suit jackets and flares his skirts, even forsakes his trademark swing coats for a slimmer, fitted model. Grės, who has done more through the years for draped gowns than anyone since Phidias, keeps the soft shoulder line and low-set sleeve but lets the waistline wander obliquely from a high empire front to a low back, includes six "intimacy dresses" (lounging costumes with harem pants). Jean Patou puts skirt upon skirt, gathers them all together at what is decidedly a natural waistline...