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...distraught heroine (Catherine McLeod) is a musically talented Trilby, dominated by her teacher, great Pianist Philip Dorn. With his mother (Mme. Ouspenskaya) as chaperone, they tour the world, lounging around between smashingly successful concerts in what must be the world's flossiest and most costly hotel accommodations. Pianist Philip Dorn is jealous of his talented pupil as a musician, but he never really sees her as a woman until after she has morosely gone off to marry her childhood sweetheart (William Carter...
...Playwrights' Company) is the first successful U.S. war play. Its artistic qualities are debatable, but it is vivid theater, beautifully staged by Director Lem Ward (Uncle Harry, Brooklyn, U.S.A.), and the story it tells, unvarnished in its simplicity, is unbeatable in its appeal. Of late years the flossiest of playwrights, Maxwell Anderson in The Eve of St. Mark has contrived no elaborate plot, essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy. He does not have to. While other playwrights have floundered or gone too far afield to dramatize the war, he has been the first to realize that...
...last week, the company figured that its cars in use were occupied 50-50 by civilians and the military. Civilians can still get their lowers if they do a little planning ahead, but when the pinch comes Army & Navy will push civilians right out of the flossiest streamliners. Says the Pullman Co.: "Every car we own is a troop...
...down at the flames, to Sascha Brastoff's boneless, bulbous, button-mouthed females, Emergence and Timid Maiden (see cut), who look like a pair of praying mantises. Ceramist Brastoff's figures, tastefully mounted on bases of grey velvet and satin, won a sculpture prize. Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus...