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Laid against this background of Spanish disorder, Mr. Witt Among The Rebels is a deft little novel that can be read as a political study, as a love story about a discreet Englishman and an elemental Spanish girl, or as a cool satire on liberals. When the revolution broke out, Mr. Witt was a consulting engineer in the naval arsenal, a cultured, book-collecting, slightly bald Victorian gentleman of 53, whose one adventurous act had been to marry Milagritos, 18 years younger than himself. Warm-blooded and grey-eyed, Milagritos was a lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene...
...WITT AMONG THE REBELS-Ramon J. Sender-Houghton Mifflin...
...Joseph Fishbach, seeded fourth; William Gillespie, seeded first, and Marvin Kantrowitz, seeded third. Fishbach and Kantrowitz trounced their opponents in straight sets, prepared to face off in the final. Both slim, dark New York City boys, they learned their tennis together on a concrete court back of the De Witt Clinton High School in The Bronx. Two years ago when they were high-school seniors they played together on the team that won the New York interscholastic tennis championship. Then Kantrowitz went to the University of Texas, Fishbach to St. John's University in Brooklyn. When they met last...
...audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter of a steelmaster try to throw off their ill-natured boredom with a tinny song about spooning and crooning, when a college president and his professors shout mealy-mouthed patriotic jingo. There is good, contemptuous laughter behind The Cradle Witt Rock and that laughter gives the play its vigor...
...named are: Regnar E. Bird, E. Langdon Burwell, H. Whitney Dodge, John B. Fisher, David O. Hagedorn, Eugene H. Hoffman, Langdon P. Marvin, Andrew G. Rosenberger, Roger S. Schafer, William H. Witt, Spencer A. Klaw, and Donald H. Keene...