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...inheritor of a vast estate, he grew to middle age without ever growing up. He spends his time playing with the local children, but some obscure loneliness finally drives him to marry a backwoods girl he picked up in a soda fountain. When the girl, who is even more childish than Ponder himself, dies under mysterious circumstances, he is indicted for murder. The trial provides tension for the plot...
...color has nothing whatever to do with nature . . . Through all the reds and purples run streaks of flame as though a furnace were blazing before one's eyes, seat of all the painter's mental struggles. And all this on a background of chrome yellow with childish little bouquets of wild flowers. A room for a pure young girl . . ." To Vincent van Gogh, to whom nature was everything, it was Gauguin's sunken eyes that spoke. He wrote his brother Theo: "He looks like a prisoner, ill and tormented." Theo struggled to raise Gauguin's fare...
...impending Nazi attack. A devout ignoramus today, he would be the last man to heed the thought that the allies' Thermopylaean resistance in the Balkans, which forced an infuriated Hitler to postpone invading Russia for over a month, quite possibly saved Moscow. Excuses may be made for childish ignorance and even for narrow racialist arrogance. But there is no excusing a cold, venomous lie. Whatever the motive, Mr. Khrushchev has deliberately chosen to bring Soviet relations with the western democracies down to the lowest level...
...question was: Should Anthony Eden's invitation to the two Bolsheviks to visit Britain next spring now be canceled? In a poll by the Daily Sketch, 69.6% said yes. But Labor's ex-Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison argued, "Let them come. It would be spiteful and childish and not improve relations to get bad-tempered." In the end, the Eden government decided to go on with the plans, but to moderate the welcome...
With a refreshing lack of pretension, the Children's Theatre has sparked Lucy Barry's adaptation of the old tale with bright, colloquial dialogue, sprightly music, and some very funny, original characterizations. The result, skillfully directed by Don Adams, is a warm-hearted, fast-paced spectacle of childish confusion and adult good fun. The play's facetious lines and well-tempered slapstick will undoubtedly appeal to sophisticated audiences; one hopes that the youngsters will be equally amused...