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...Latin purists, some criti- cisms can be offered. Lines were spoken far too quickly in many cases, and some niceties of the language could not be appreciated. (Cries of "Tardius!" came from last night's audience, and the troupe will probably take the hint tonight.) In fact, perhaps the whole performance is keyed at slightly too fast a tempo; but that is far better than dragging...
...National Theater's decision last summer to abandon plays and show movies, rather than accept Actors' Equity's ruling that Negroes must not be barred from the audience. Julius Caesar sold tickets to all applicants, had a sprinkling of Negro customers-and not a hint of a fuss...
Last fall the detractors won. The symphony's directors offered Netherlands-born Hans Kindler a new contract with one hand and evidently a hint with the other: if he accepted, they might not be able to raise enough money for another season. Kindler chose to resign from the orchestra he had founded and directed for 18 years...
Winchell was making a characteristic hidden-ball play, a retraction that gave no hint to any but the closest reader that a whistle had been blown on his fairness and accuracy...
...principles, does his duty as a citizen, and gets another man killed. A fourth, A Chance for Mr. Lever, stacks everything in favor of the choice of sin by a middling good little man and notes his exhilaration after making it. A fifth, written last year, is called The Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written in 1936 (he gave it up, wisely, to write Brighton Rock), in which the author intended to use the West African locale later...