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Rivermen have a saying that Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle harbor-where the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers meet to form the Ohio-is "great for towboats but hell on showboats." It was hell last week on one of the biggest, whitest and trimmest of U.S. inland excursion steamers, the Island Queen...
...year-old Merchandise Mart (4,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space) cost Marshall Field $30 million to build, is still valued on its books at more than $21 million. Once the whitest of elephants, it is now 100% occupied, brings in an impressive $4,000,000 annually in rents...
...happiest observer of this cultural-financial comeback was one of the country's whitest-robed musical angels: chubby, mild-mannered Henry H. Reichhold (TIME, Dec. 18), underwriter of the Detroit Symphony's resurgence. A rich, German born manufacturer (Reichhold Chemicals Inc.) who has fiddled as a hobby, Angel Reichhold, 43, could now sit with more than usual pride in his usual box, congratulating himself that his solvent godchild was also a Manhattan-approved artistic success...
Good serious plays are scarce enough, talented new playwrights are scarcer. Whitest hope is 21-year-old, London-born Peter Ustinov, whose The House of Regrets-written when he was 19-has the critics talking of a "new Chekhov" and mumbling about genius...
...plot. Oh, yes, the plot. The influence of Grimm's Fairy Tales is rather pronounced, to put it mildly. Revived are both the familiar land-of-opportunity theory and the idea that "Mother is still the whitest woman on earth." With a little more ingenuity in building the story around the songs, "Strike Up the Band" might have been a top tenner. As it is, only La Garland saves the film from hitting the mediocre level. Of course there is some flag waving in the finale, but moviedom seems to have the proper approach to the patriotic movement...