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Lost Boundaries. A true story, movingly enacted, of Negroes who "pass" as whites (TIME, July...
...believe we of England have a harmonious feeling for Southern women," observed Gertrude Lawrence, who will play the Southern mother in the movie version of The Glass Menagerie. "They are usually reposed, quiet-spoken and gentle in their manner. You'll find that true of most English women...
Illustrator George Petty pooh-poohed the vaunted French chic: "When the middle-class French girl dresses up, she undresses. Her costume is a display of sex . . . whereas the healthy outdoor life of the American girl gives her natural radiance, which is the true attraction of the opposite...
...exasperating. Many of the arias, particularly those of the sweet, flighty Birdie, are genuine mood pieces, effectively incorporating devices for a Southern flavor. Yet the music lacks the consistency of, say, "Peter Grimes," so that the total effect is one of Blitzstein rather than the South. This is particularly true of the music used by the Negro group. Two of their numbers are beautiful spirituals, but the others lack, at least on first hearing, any Negro quality...
While the Dunces like to consider themselves an influential phase of Dunster House activity, yet, short of stuffing the ballot box, it is doubtful if our sixteen harmonizers could "choose seven for House Committee" as Tuesdays CRIMSON announced. It is true that the Dunces admit to membership only Dunster House men, but the converse of the axiom is not true. Let the CRIMSON take warning. There have been disgruntled rumblings from the electorate ever the error. Such phrases as "defamation of character," "libel," and "it wasn't the beer, it was the potato chips" have been heard since. John...