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Admittedly this is a debatable opinion; those who swoon at "Sweet Nightingale" or "Fain Would I Wed a Fair Young Maid" will contest strongly any attempt to shroud Dyer-Bennett with the critic's cloak of scorn. Yet for one who seeks in a folk singer a versatility extending beyond repertory, including a versatility of personality, Dyer-Bennett falls short of being engaging...
Into Bangkok last week to star in an all-cotton fashion show and present two high-style cotton dresses to Thailand's Queen Sirikit flew the U.S.A.'s 1959 Maid of Cotton, pretty, blue-eyed, brunette Malinda Diggs Berry, 21-year-old Oklahoma State University coed. Like a debutante on a grand tour, Malinda arrived with a chaperone, a pressagent and nine suitcases containing 25 costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when...
Oodles of Noodles. Sending out a Maid to dp a salesman's work is the latest trick of U.S. farmers trying private enterprise methods to sell U.S. crop surpluses. Feed growers are prowling Europe looking for new markets to serve Europe's growing livestock industry; free samples of U.S. fried chicken, cigarettes and doughnuts are being handed out at trade fairs; Italian spaghetti manufacturers are being shown how to make good pasta with U.S. wheat, instead of their traditional but scarce durum wheat...
...admits that she will have to reacclimate herself to dormitory life. "I lived in a cooperative, Edmunds House, after my freshman year, which I spent in Whitman," she said. But the only thing that really worries her, Mrs. Bevington admitted with a smile, is "the problem of having a maid come in everyday to vacuum and dust. It seems somewhat a luxury and even an invasion of privacy." "We're afraid of being spoiled," her husband interjected, teasingly...
...life: work and praise, sorrow, prayer, complaint, and love. Between each number the theatre is blackened and the performers take their positions for the next of the songs--some interpreted as still pictures, others with lively action. In the "complaint category," for example, "Talking Union" and "Union Maid" are done with audience participation, including community singing on the chorus of the latter. The cast distributes union handbills reading "Oust Boss Gunch" and "If yer gonna split Atoms you can't split Ranks." (Jones had the handbills printed from old union woodcuts he found in the Princeton archives...