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...Milton (TIME, March 17) is believed by authorities (J. F. Marsh, G. C. Williamson, et al.) to be actually of [John Bunyan], the author of Pilgrim's Progress. Your cut showed but part of the picture; a staff and pilgrim's bottle are really in the left background, and what appears to be a representation of the risen Savior is in the upper right. The portrait belonged to Capel Lofft, who believing it to be of Milton, published an engraving of it in 1792. Lofft, like TIME, was evidently unaware of the authentic Faithorne engraving, which...
...show is produced by the Dramatic Club and directed by Jervis B. McMcchan '43, Musical background will be supplied by the Pieran Sodality, while the male lead will be played by Leonard Kent...
...fond of a guide Scotch burr, gang doon tae the Fine Arts and see the new Harry Lauder picture. It's full of highland accents and angular-Scottish faces that smack of the stories of Sir Walter Scott, set against the background of the lochs and the mountains. Harry Lauder is now a very old man but he can still put across a song and play the comic. The ballads he sings are dear to all the hieland lads and lassies who have come over to this country, and most of Boston's Scotch are down at the theatre tapping...
...background loomed the shape of the one form of taxation that gets there fastest with the mostest dollars -and is also the most distasteful to the Treasury, the President, and to many economists: straight sales taxes. Off the record, Washington admitted that sales taxes must come, sooner or later. Many a citizen, pondering the situation, felt a renewed urge to rush around to the nearest bar and restore his tissues...
...interior of a great nightclub tall, draped and mirrored rooms of the Baron's house, the modernistic interior of the Rio Stock Exchange. In these settings, Brazilian life seems polite and well-dressed, constantly accompanied by an ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background of beautiful girls. Of the Brazilian characters, only the Baron's rival broker (J. Carrol Naish) has a trace of perfidy and that is gently masked. Since Miss Faye as the Baroness with a brush of Brooklyn in her accent prefers the Latin Don Ameche...