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...sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better." On the 50th anniversary of its first production, Cavalleria Rusticana was produced at the Royal Opera House in Rome. Its composer, Pietro Mascagni, aged 76, not only heard it but wielded the baton while seated...
Over at Lincoln, Nebraska's capital and seat of her university, the Nebraska Art Association sprouted a decade after the Joslyns blew into Omaha. Last week, to celebrate its 50th annual show, the Association's galleries (upstairs from the fossils in the Nebraska State Museum) were crammed to overflowing with a first rate loan exhibition of U. S. art and a selection of 50 paintings from its own permanent collection. Since 1928 the Association and the University of Nebraska (together spending some $5,000 a year) have bought from similar shows the work of Robert Henri, John Steuart...
Next week, on the 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Republic, every newspaper in Brazil celebrated with bold headlines. President Vargas understood. His country's press was still loyal to the Republic, cared not a snap for his Estado Novo...
Outside the U. S. Treasury last week, as usual, stood the time-mellowed, unsmiling bronze statue of First Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Inside, as usual, sat time-harried, unsmiling Henry Morgenthau Jr., 50th Secretary...
This week, while celebrating his 50th birthday, the greatest collaborator of his time can look back on a career in the theatre that would be spectacular in a man of 100. Kaufman's current collaboration with Moss Hart, The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Oct. 30), is one of the biggest smash hits of the last ten years. Kaufman's unequaled record: at least one show on Broadway every year since 1921. Fifteen of those shows Burns Mantle has included in various annual volumes of the Best Plays. One of them (You Can't Take...