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Sing Till Tomorrow (by Jean Lowenthal) folded after the most Scrooge-like reviews within yuletide memory. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr objected with equal irritation that half the play could not be heard and the other half could. Brooks Atkinson of the Times described the play as "solemn gibberish." Sing Till Tomorrow was worse than just plain bad: it was fuzzily and pretentiously so, and with acting that matched the script. Involved were a druggist, his second wife and his son, who sinned with the wife and wrote a play attacking the father. "His pitch is a stammer...
Said the Russian note: The Soviet government will join the new talks "on the idea that . . . the states taking part" in the pool agreement will also "undertake solemn and unconditional pledges not to use atomic, hydrogen or other weapons of mass extermination...
...thrills. They have staunch allies in Actress Cornell and an able cast-including Felix Aylmer as the British delegate; they start off with a genuinely promising first act. After that, things tend to halt at times, and at others to go downhill. The play's serious side, too solemn for a suspense yarn, is too superficial for anything else. To keep really alive, the play should have clung like a leech to its corpse...
...some of her pictures in the window. There they were spotted by a Manhattan collector named Louis Caldor. He bought them all and began trying to interest New York art dealers in Grandma's work. Finally he tried the newly opened Galerie St. Etienne, run by a solemn Viennese expatriate named Otto Kallir, who fell hard for the pictures. Dealer Kallir put Grandma under contract, and her first big show, in 1940, lit the match to a bonfire of public enthusiasm which has been crackling brightly ever since...
Another droll touch was added to Fools' Week as six Ponies staged a race on tricycles and roller skates in front of Widener yesterday. With utter disregard for the solemn procession, the police attempted tempted to disperse the fascinated spectators...