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About 100 students, most of them from Harvard and Radcliffe, are expected at Quincy today to assist in the wind-up of the CIO campaign for industrial unionism at the Fore River Yards of Bethlehem Steel. Wellesley, Simmons and M.I.T. will also be represented...
...group the nine painters went swimming, played tennis, ate, drank, toured Walt Disney's studios. Every 15 minutes or so they took time out to listen to war news. As a wind-up celebration Producer Wanger (proud of his first venture into the arts) gave them a reception attended by 400 of Hollywood's Who's Who. Afterwards cinema stars were heard to declare that they were going to visit some art galleries, now that they knew how painting was done. How they had got their own paintings done was not so clear to the painters...
...Will there not be other springs, beautcous as this one? Will there not be other friends and things to do? But no. No. They will never again be quite like this. You see, this is the end of something--the final wind-up. This is what has brought intensity to everything seen and done. And this very intensity of enjoyment has banished satisfaction--even as the lover cannot enjoy a parting kiss when he knows he will yearn in the future for the lips he now feels. The future--new kisses, new surroundings, new interests--is too remote to cool...
...college boys cavort as chorus girls. . . . Mr. Lahey didn't think much of the show and said so in his review, but the paper didn't print it. . . . Presumably because the event is always a big social moment in Boston and the home towners might be offended. . . . His wind-up bears repeating, however: "These shows were originally presented for the entertainment of the Hasty Pudding in private. This is a custom which should be revived." Walter Winchell in the New York Daily Mirror...
...Charm of La Boheme (Intergloria Film) sets characters very like Puccini's Mimi and Rodolfo on a tragic course in a modern cinema plot, contrives to fit the woeful wind-up into La Boheme's familiar last act. With vigorous operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura and his cinema-songstress wife, Marta Eggerth, singing the opera's chief arias, the music charms, the film's scheme proves a workable one for bringing grand opera to the screen...