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...dream-like story of innuendo, that flits from the amusing to the near-terrifying. "Fete Galante" has as its scene a ball given by an old man on his birthday. "At midnight everyone unmasks!" announces the old man's trusty retainer, but no one is wearing a mask. The true "meaning" of that incident, or of the whole piece, is elusive, but the story is certainly one of aimlessness and frustration; it is objective, succeeding largely because none of the machinery shows through the delicate and expertly woven surface...
...story, a labyrinth of hidden meanings and motives. How could it be otherwise when the chief figure on the international scene, Joseph Stalin, has written: "Words must have no relation to actions-otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good words are a mask for concealment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron...
...tunes that motivate its singers. All too often the usual operetta tomfoolery involving disguised counts and misplaced husbands is a little hard to stomach. Clark, however, patches things up nicely by injecting enough innuendo and thigh-gazing into the proceedings to make even the merry widow drop her mask. Snatching at apron strings and pinching fannies, Bobby Clark makes no bones about his slapstic; but the very fact that he enjoys himself wins over the audience...
John Roosevelt's little-publicized wife, Anne, a honey-blonde, turned up in her evening clothes in a vanishing-cream ad, testifying: "Before I go out-always a 1-Minute Mask . . . my skin looks finer-textured-it looks clearer. And it feels wonderful! Smoother all over...
...point, during the latter stages of the speech, a figure, clad in what appeared to be a raccoon-skin coat and a bear's head mask crept up behind the speaker, almost reaching the edge of the infield before Yard police set out in pursuit. The intruder, bearing a hammer and sickle, retreated over the board fence surrounding the secret football practice field and was not caught by the rapidly advancing forces...