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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Landlubber. In the moldering, sway-backed Goldenrod, twice sunk and salvaged in her 40 years, it takes an eye as knowing as Cap'n Bryant's to find wistful hints of glories past,* when she was the biggest, flossiest playhouse afloat. Those were the magnolia-scented days when the showboats moved as regularly as the spring floods and, according to legend, a Bayou mother could say of her child, "He'll be foah, come next floatin' showhouse." Today, twelve years after the Goldenrod became a virtual landlubber at her St. Louis mooring, Cap'n Menke...
Among the period pieces that Menke's ten players have gagged up for the urban taste: The Drunkard, The Hat fields and the McCoys, Brother Against Brother, East Lynne, The Lure of the City. Recent audiences have been somewhat taken aback because 16-year-old Jack Fletcher, who performs as Hamlet, tries to play the role without gags. "Sometimes," he says, "I have to cut some of the soliloquies short to save my neck...
...Obedience. For an opening appetizer, shrewd Manager Rudolf Bing (who will get a chance to demonstrate his shrewdness as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year) served up one dish that is always good for a gander...
Detroit was not alone in its troubles. The orchestra that hard-working Conductor Izler Solomon had built in Columbus, Ohio had finally tumbled down in its eighth year, unable to raise $90,000 for its oncoming season. Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list. But from Portland, Ore. last week came cheering news of a remedy if not a cure...
...when he was Papal Secretary of State, Pius XII became interested in the ancient tombs uncovered by Vatican workers burrowing below ground to check on the foundations supporting St. Peter's dome. When he became Pope, he gave orders for further investigations. For the past nine years, delicate digging has been under way beneath the great basilica. An official account of these secret labors is reported to be in preparation, perhaps to be made public at the beginning of the Holy Year of 1950. Delicate Matter. Last week the New York Times front-paged a long dispatch from...