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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Awakened at last in 1922, after a court librarian rediscovered its past, the theater was found to be still in good shape. Its collection of null 18th century sets, ranging from trompe I'oeil farmhouses to ornate court scenes, is the world's largest. The wooden stage machinery, designed by the Italian master Donate Sopani, is so flexible that a four-man windlass team can make a complete scene change in ten seconds. In the 40-odd rooms where actors and singers once lived while the royal family was in residence at Drottningholm, the original hand-painted wallpaper...
...belly of a four-armed Hindu Siva. Critics and public alike slapped plays down as soon as they appeared. But almost in spite of themselves, Broadway producers, having survived, are ready to try again. The fall list is so promising that it may well atone for the recent past...
...soap opera is an island. When Helen Trent died in June, the bell was really tolling for Ma Perkins, The Second Mrs. Burton and all their kin. Over the past decade radio networks have been steadily losing time to their affiliated stations (who prefer to schedule local disk jockeys, with whom they can make far more money). Across the country fewer stations scheduled network drama every season; sooner or later the "soaps" had to go. NBC scrapped them at the beginning of this year. Last week CBS announced that the last seven on the air would...
Last week in the Warwick fire station. the counter on Dr. Anderson's gun clicked off the 500,00cth shot that he and his corpsmen have given in the past six years. Soon after, Dr. Anderson had to quit and let a corpsman relieve him; the trigger ringer on his right hand, despite a golfer's glove, was too painfully blistered for him to carry...
...Challenge. For the past six years Johnson's life has been dominated by the decathlon. In recent months he lived for little else. Now a U.C.L.A. graduate student in physical education, Rafer Johnson shares an $83-a-month apartment with his brother Jim, a U.C.L.A. football player and a hurdler of near-Olympic caliber. Johnson has had no time for dates or vacations, and little relaxation beyond strumming a guitar. Every afternoon he got into his 1949 Chevrolet, a vehicle plainly showing its 150,000-mile past, and drove out to the U.C.L.A. field to practice...