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...hero is a Molnaresque playwright. Its presumable moral: when it comes to finding a happy ending for a sorry mess, only a playwright will do. The playwright's young godson is engaged to a beautiful prima donna. Late one night, godfather and godson overhear the lady, through thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous love scene with an actor. While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on how to save the day: the guilty lovers had really been rehearsing-a play which has still to be written...
...periodic intervals there have been little out bursts in these columns about the marauding vagaries of Serge Koussevitzky. There have been complaints, often justified, about thin Mozart tones being swollen into Lisztian voluptuousness, about batteries of double basses grinding out Bach fugues, about programs of Morton Gould and Samuel Barber. But, instead of picking our noses to find something to grumble about, let us realize that Serge Koussevitzky is a very fine conductor, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society is a very fine choral group, the Boston Symphony is a superb orchestra, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis...
Most of the fawdeeraw was over in the National League, where eight clubs got set to make a race out of it, and at least six had a fighting chance. The favored St. Louis Cardinals had balance but few reserves. Cincinnati had its thin man Ewell Blackwell, the league's best pitcher. If the fence-busting New York Giants had two more good pitchers, they could take World Series orders this week. But the club other managers worried most about was the Boston Braves, which has a new doubleplay combination (Rookie Alvin Dark and Oldster Eddie Stanky...
...anxious to get to a ball that she cracks her husband over the head with a vase, has her lover arrested, and finally sweeps off with the chief of police. Beside The Old Maid and the Thief, the other half of the evening's bill, it seemed pretty thin...
...Little Co. sees a bright future for tracers in industry. They can be used to measure the infinitesimal amount of lubricant applied to textile fibers, or to estimate the ghost-thin film of metal rubbed off a shaft when it revolves in its bearings. No quantity of material is too small to carry telltale sparks of radioactivity...