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...variation of the age-old theme, "Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl," is the plot, the "lesson" being that people shouldn't do what others think is best but what they themselves think is best. Both plot and lesson would have been more palatable, however, had there been fewer muffed lines, missed cues and long, embarrassing pauses. Fay Wray has the main part in the show, and the management tells us in the program notes that it "feels honored to have this gracious lady and actress as guest star." Miss Wray, however, must put better expression into...
...guise of a series of historical novels, Novelist Lion Feuchtwanger has for years been discussing one of the touchiest of age-old issues-the Jewish problem. The nub of this problem is the never-ending tug-of-war in the Semitic mind between nationalism (atavistic) and internationalism (idealistic)-a nub made spiny with the misunderstandings that this cryptic conflict causes in whatever alien community it takes place. Author Feuchtwanger has embodied this struggle in the character of First-Century Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus (The Jewish War), historical hero of the fictional trilogy of which Josephus and the Emperor is volume...
...embalming fluids more penetrating. Synthetic detergents-non-soaps with the cleansing properties of soaps-were first produced in the laboratory by the Frenchmen Dumas and Peligot in 1836. They began their concoctions with fatty alcohols extracted from whale oil, but the product was too costly to compete with that age-old detergent, soap. During World War I, when fats for soapmaking were scarce, German chemists again tried in earnest to concoct soapless soaps. Real success did not come until after the war, when they developed the sodium alkyl sulfates. Production of these substances was not practical until the 1930s, after...
Cowboys and their ladies would dance all night to the scraping of fiddles; Mexican Los Pastores troupes would give their age-old folk pageant...
...Owners of three-gaited and five-gaited saddle horses will continue to exhibit their pets with set-up tails, despite the crusade of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to abolish an age-old practice recently outlawed in New York. To get around the law, exhibitors, with $10,000 to $20,000 invested in each of their plume-tailed beauties, have procured affidavits from veterinarians certifying that the tail-setting operation (in which muscles are cut and the tail forced up into an unnatural arch) was performed for the health of the horse. For some reason...