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...curtain raiser was a frothy "sham in one act" called Malady of Love, with libretto by Film Writer Lewis Allan and music by Broadway Composer and Conductor Lehman Engel. The story: a determined young thing (Ruth Fleming) wins her psychiatrist by telling him her contrivedly erotic dreams. While she sings prettily of herself ("I've been kissed but not mated") a pair of dancers act out her words and the young doctor (sung by a fine baritone, Warren Galjour) loses all his Freudian detachment over what he sees. The 30-minute score is neatly professional...
...obsession with the question of power is also illustrated by his strange preoccupation with Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. In his days in Adams he used to say over and over again that this was his "favorite book" because it illustrated the importance of power and what a sham altruism was. He used to have long intense discussions with this girl on the subject, but she never succeeded in arguing him out of his position...
...Independence from France. U.S. Negro Contralto Marian Anderson was there to sing for the celebrations, which included a dinner for 700 local and foreign notables at the ruined palace of the fabulous Black Emperor Henri Christophe. There were speeches, dances, pageants. But the eye-popping main event was a sham battle near Cap Haitien, watched intently by President Paul E. Magloire, U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield, the U.N.'s Dr. Ralph J. Bunche and a crowd of thousands...
When Shamela opens, Sham, unlike Pam, is not running from but gunning for the young squire, son of her late mistress, and writing her mother progress reports: " 'Laud,' says I, 'Sir, I hope you don't intend to be rude'; 'no,' says he, 'my Dear,' and then he kissed me, 'till he took away my Breath-and I pretended to be Angry, and to get away, and then he kissed me again, and breathed very short, and looked very silly; and by Ill-Luck Mrs. Jervis came...
...Slut, Saucebox, Boldface-come hither!" Shamela takes to her bedroom instead, but carefully leaves the door unlatched (Pamela always locked hers). When Pamela's door was forced, she would faint dead away, but when the squire comes "pit a pat into [Shamela's] Room in his Shirt," Sham flashes some impromptu but effective jujitsu...