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Written for a production at Catholic University, "Count Me In" should have stayed there. On Broadway it falls flat and can hardly bear comparison with a Freedley, Wiman or Abbott musical. At any moment you expect someone to come out with a crack about the Dean of Women's red woolies, but you have to be satisfied with the humor of a Back Bay sitting room. Compensating for the poor dialogue is some top-notch dancing (Hal Leroy's tapping is the best thing in the show), an original story and a couple of good performances...
Relatively restrained by comparison, the International Student Assembly convened last week in Washington with 365 delegates from 56 countries. Like most student conferences, this one was noteworthy for: 1) the vagueness of its talk; 2) the large number of students in their 30s. Unlike the others, it included a group of delegates with a dramatic record in action. Among them: Chinese Cinemactress Yung Wang, who escaped the Japs at Hong Kong by feigning feeblemindedness; Wing Commander Scott Maiden, who shot down a Nazi bomber at Dieppe; Lieut. Johannes Woltjer, veteran fighter in Holland and The Netherlands East Indies. Above...
...yardstick to show how far WPB and the entire nation must go before they are really all-out in World War II, was provided last week by Donald Nelson's British counterpart, Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Captain Lyttelton made an international broadcast not intended as an invidious comparison but as a reminder that Britain's war effort is one of the United Nations' great assets. He cited two statistics...
...where they filed their first stories of internment under the Japs, 26 U.S. correspondents grimly compared notes with the sassy Jap correspondents returning with tennis racquets and golf clubs from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Last week the U.S. newsmen ended their long voyage home aboard the Gripsholm. By comparison with their sadistic treatment in Jap prisons and concentration camps, even those U.S. correspondents interned in Germany and Italy had been pampered...
...even the worst treated among them admitted he had got off easy by comparison with John Benjamin ("J.B.") Powell, editor since 1917 of the China Weekly Review. In a Manhattan hospital, 56-year-old Editor Powell lay horribly emaciated, crippled for life. He had lost all ten toes as a result of freezing and gangrene in Shanghai's notorious Bridgehouse Prison...