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...waist thicker, but Comic Bob Hope, onstage at the St. Louis Municipal Opera in the Broadway role he created 25 years ago, seemed the same slat-nosed, perpetual lad with the innocent leer. Playing Huckleberry Haines, the matchmaking student bandleader of Alpha Beta Pi, in the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical Roberta, Gagman Hope (aided by his writers) stuck to the creaky plot, but inserted his old vaudeville number Invitation to the Dance, convulsed the audience with typical, topical Hopela: "The President is getting off better drives -he has Sherman Adams' picture on the ball." For its 40th season...
Died. Kurt Alder, 55, German co-winner (with the late University of Kiel Professor Otto Diels) of the 1950 Nobel Prize in chemistry; of a liver ailment; in Cologne, West Germany. The two scientists were honored for discovering in the '20s the diene synthesis of organic compounds, an advance that helped accelerate the development of synthetic dyes, textiles, plastics and rubber...
...Died. Otto Abetz, 55, overbearing ambassador (1940-44) from Nazi Germany to the French puppet government at Vichy, onetime professed pacifist and champion of Franco-German solidarity, whose prewar activities in France, e.g., bribing writers and newsmen, helped reduce French preparedness during the gathering storm; by flames in the interior of his Volkswagen after a crash near Dusseldorf, which also killed his wife. Abetz was tried as a war criminal in 1949 and sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. Freed in 1954, he avoided politics, worked as a freelance writer on economics...
Although spokesmen in each of the Departments concerned reported varied opinions, sentiment is predominantly favorable. Otto Eckstein, Assistant Professor of Economics, said that "the over-whelming opinion in the Economics Department is in favor of the CEP proposals...
...Otto Muller's Standing Nude in Landscape cannot be called cacophonous, but the element of good painting it in fact possesses only makes its faults doubly inexcusable. The figure, standing amidst branches, two of which are her arms, possesses all the spiritual truth of a chic cosmetics ad. Like the surrounding stuff by Schmidt-Rotluff, Rohlfs, Pechstein, et al, there is a point here, a point there, a little theory everywhere, but not so very much cohesive painting when all is said and done...