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Although the males in the cast carry most of the operetta, perhaps the standout is Alison Keith as Queen of the Fairies. Wonderfully arch, she carries off everything she attempts, even mixed lines. Though Elizabeth Peterson confounds none of her lines, nor in fact does anything foolish, she somehow conveys a less satisfactory impression. She is said to have a good voice, but I find it, and the seriousness with which she takes it, irritating. Her part, of course, will not permit the clownishness of the others, but still one wishes that she would consent to do mere Gilbert...
Colombia's plight becomes all the more surprising when we remember that only three years ago, Colombians were hopeful that the newly established Rojas government would create a stable democracy which would finally enable the country to develop its vast natural resources. They hailed Rojas' ouster of arch-conservative President Laureano Gomez, who had fought to retain power despite lack of popular support, and supported his attempts to end the six-year-old civil war that was ravaging the thinly populated western plains. Immediately after seizing power, Rojas removed restraints on the press, and promised free elections and restoration...
Rattlesnakes do not make good pets, Klauber warns solemnly. When caressed with the hand or stroked with a brush, they sometimes arch their backs, but this apparent appreciation should not be depended upon. Klauber tells of a woman, Mrs. Grace O. Wiley, who petted her snakes and enjoyed seeing them arch their backs like cats. "Her fearless handling of venomous snakes," he says, "was well known, yet . . . even in her case, after many years of experience, there was a fatal termination...
Even in the Democratic South, some relatively young Republicans are giving Democratic incumbents a rough go. In Georgia's Fifth District, Atlanta Lawyer Randolph William Thrower, 43, former filling-station attendant, FBI agent and Marine captain, is close on the heels of arch-segregationist Representative James C. Davis, 61, who was Georgia's presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention, and has since held carefully stacked House subcommittee hearings on integration in the District of Columbia's schools (TIME, Oct.1). In Kentucky's Sixth District, Fayette County's Republican Sheriff Wallace ("Wah Wah") Jones...
...shepherd of the flock in tidy, suburban Woodford, just outside Manchester, the slim, silver-haired Rev. Philip St. John (rhymes with Injun) Wilson Ross, Cambridge '26, was irreproachable. On call to his parishioners for religious consolation at any hour, he was also arch and sporting at children's church picnics, full of charm at meetings of the church mothers, and a lively, intelligent man of the world with the businessmen of the local vestry. There were those, of course, whose evil tongues sought mischief in gossip over the frequent calls paid by the Rev. Mr. Ross on Wealthy...