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...G.O.P. Congressman John Phillips until he announced his retirement last November, spreads across 11,000 violently contrasting square miles. It includes the lush irrigated ranches (cotton, fancy vegetables, dates) of the Imperial, Coachella and Palo Verde valleys and Marslike desert mountains and flats. It in cludes the onetime citrus wonderland of Riverside County, now being turned into a thriving business area by the overflow of Los Angeles-bound migrants...
...novelty on the program was Kirk Mechem's amusing Rules for Behavior (1955). Effectively written, it shows much the same style and spirit as Irving Fine's Alice in Wonderland music. Also of recent vintage was "The Promise of Living" from Copland's opera The Tender Land. This warm work needs a slightly larger body of singers. The concert ended with Vaughan William's hearty Let All the World in Every Corner Sing, which wanted only a more robust accompaniment...
...Races, Wonderland at Revere Beach (daily...
...Races, Wonderland, Revere (nightly...
...gadgets-to a house without electricity, where she dies, at length, of fright during a thunderstorm. Prodded by an ambitious lawyer, her back-country kin charge Uncle Daniel with murdering her. The trial-of a modern-day Uncle Toby-calls to mind the trials in Pickwick and Alice in Wonderland. With cousins on the jury, kids overrunning the witness box, refreshments being served, Uncle Daniel first disappearing and then hiring the prosecution lawyer to handle the defense as well, it not so much travesties court trials as stands them squarely, and often hilariously, on their heads...