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...their first public appearance on any stage" dove headfirst last week into the swirling torrent of half-mad Swedish genius. A thrice-married woman-hater of violent emotions, Playwright Strindberg (1849-1912) left off hating in The Bridal Crown to dramatize a spooky legend of guilt and redemption. Kersti (Aurora Bonney) trades her illegitimate baby to a witch in return for the crown which only virgins may wear at their wedding. After the wedding, the crown falls into a mill race and the search for it fishes up the dead child. The rest of the story concerns the fate...
Inferior to Strindberg's The Father and Lady Julia, The Bridal Crown needs miraculously controlled acting to stay within bounds. Except for Aurora Bonney, the cast snubbed all current theories of acting, kept declaiming as from the scaffold, made a stage whisper sound like a call to arms...
...Europe, kneeling peasants gibbered prayers. In Holland, merry celebrants hailed the vast curtains of red, orange, purple, green, blue and white light shifting and shimmering in the northern sky as a happy omen for the delivery of Princess Juliana (see p. 77). In London, which had not seen the aurora borealis since the dire night of a Zeppelin raid during the War, someone, thinking that Windsor Castle was on fire, called the Windsor Fire Department. European telephone exchanges generally were jammed by excited or fearful inquiries...
London scientists said the aurora was the most impressive in 50 years. Scientists at the University of Grenoble in France said that western Europe had not seen such a display since the year...
Most astronomers believe that auroras are caused by swarms of electrified particles shooting out from the sun. Like a compass needle, these particles seek the Poles and they visibly ionize the air atoms, as an electric current ionizes gas atoms in a commercial sign. Auroras are brighter and more frequent when sunspots are active, and sunspots have been more active in recent months than at any time since 1870. Last fortnight a magnetic storm of unusual violence caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to fade out (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, while the great aurora waved its brilliant...