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...violin, encouraged his taste for writing and directing plays which he and his small friends acted in a granary. Early in the War, Boyer, at 15, ran an amateur company to entertain soldiers. On his visit to Hollywood in 1932, he played a chauffeur in Red-headed Woman, bit parts with Ruth Chatterton, Claudette Colbert. After building up his prestige abroad, he returned last year, made Caravan, went home again because he considered the next rôle offered him unworthy of his talents...
...With a bit of shamrock pinned underneath her dress and a little flat prayer book in the sole of her slipper, Mary Elisabeth Moore, a 21-year-old New Yorker, made her debut last week as the youngest member of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills...
...which probably could not be avoided in any dramatization of the book, and which, in itself, is not serious. That criticism is that the several minor plots woven into the tale have to be treated so briefly that they lose much of their meaning, seeming, in fact, just a bit ridiculous. They have a tendency, in addition, to give the whole the appearance of having been rather sketchily and loosely thrown together. Much of the depth of the story, as experienced by reading the book, is lost; although enough of the tender pathos and bitter struggle and loving adoration...
...file so simple a document as a questionnaire or registration card realizes that a fairly large number of men make mistakes even on that. Still greater, then, is the chance of a goodly number of undergraduates misreading so long a statement. On the score of frankness, a bit less hocus-pocus about "not reporting absences" and a little more frankness about "permitting cuts" would add to the force of the document without changing the action of the students...
This state of affairs, however, failed to alarm those who knew Franklin Roosevelt from the old Albany days. He could, they were quite aware, "play possum" with rare skill, deliberately keeping in the background until "things shook down a bit" and then with one or two bold gestures reassert his leadership. Last week these old Albany friends hoped that the President was only playing such a game, that nothing more serious was the matter with his Administration...