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When the curtain goes up at 8.30 o'clock tonight at Brattle Hall on the Welsh kitchen interior of Richard Hughes play "A Comedy of Good and Evil," it will mark both its American premier and the fiftieth production of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...Anchorage is ... the headquarters of the Alaska Railroad and the Alaska Telegraph System and is a very important air base for southwestern and interior Alaska...
...also an excellent excuse for Secretary of the Interior Ickes to do something which no member of the Roosevelt Cabinet had yet dared to do-i.e., to express publicly his vast distaste for Huey P. Long. "I don't think," growled the PWAdministrator, "that Senator Long is going to dictate to us on how we are going to administer public works in Louisiana. . . . Mr. Long by the action of his Legislature will keep a lot of men out of work by making it impossible for PWA to make loans or grants. Apparently the Senator favors sharing wealth...
Most fallow field for air transport is territory where surface travel is slow. Nowhere is it slower than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
Author Luhan is a nature-lover: "It is delicious to participate with the cat in the deep within the penetrating domestic quietude of the somnolent interior, yet it is not so precious and uplifting as the tender, wakeful participation with the birds." Her description of Taos scenery and climate, especially from her window, are lingeringly loving. But life in a New Mexican ranch house, however comfortably fixed up, is fraught with more than contemplation. Chatelaine Luhan finds it strenuous: "For every single time I have to attend to anything, whether it's a horse, or a telegram from goodness...