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...Chicago City Opera's blundering production. Well-knit and melodious, the music often gives a real feeling of the sea as it beats against the chalk cliffs of the Cornwall coast. Leginska worked like a fury at rehearsals, got telling results from orchestramen. It was not her fault that the performance began a half hour late, that Morwenna, supposedly a middle-aged character, was mistaken for the youthful heroine or that Baritone John Charles Thomas (Gale) will never be an actor...
...next war will be partly my fault," said Miss Zara duPont, "because I didn't kick hard enough." An active lady of nearly seventy, the first cousin of the Wilmington munition manufacturers is a vigorous worker for peace...
...players imbue the play with a tremendous amount of intensely realistic acting which is sincere and capable but not deeply moving. Perhaps it's the fault of the manuscript which with all its professed "realism" isn't quite convincing. After all it is not striking that young actors have trouble in getting started. It is bad that the theater has to be dominated by a star system which raises box office above art and it is reasonable to assume that wives who go abedding with their leading men may lose their husbands. This is all true and real...
...Last year," he said, "with the exception of one or two games our principal fault was a lack of aggressiveness. Whatever happens, we're not going to have that fault this year." Although Fesler has picked no tentative squad as yet, it is believed that he intends to utilize the two six and a half footers, John Herrick '38 and Bill Gray '37, neither of whom had returned to Cambridge in time for yesterday's practice...
...multiplied. Getting the sack instead, he is thought to have a routine testimonial to his good work and many scoops of the past twelve years. Such a document, under Italy's Labor Charter, is prime evidence on the crucial issue of whether he was "dismissed for no good fault...