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Wolf-Ferrari based his Ruffians on a farce by 18th Century Carlo Goldoni: two prosperous Venetian merchants arrange a marriage of convenience for their children, and, being unromantic old curmudgeons, vow that the young couple shall not be allowed to meet until they reach the altar. Their wives, being romantic busybodies, vow that the youngsters shall meet anyhow, and thereby thinly hangs the opera...
Stalin will protect the working girl, vow the Communists. Last week a pretty 21-year-old blonde, who with three men escaped from Poland to Sweden in a rattletrap plane (TIME, Aug. 13), told how he does...
Finally, there was some polite snickering over the possibility that Evita was a victim of her own vanity. Though her own friends vow she is 32, the Argentine Who's Who, in a biography dictated by Evita herself, states that she is 29-a year less than the age set by the constitution for candidates for the nation's two top offices. Chirped the New York Daily News: "Eva would rather be 29 than Veep...
Died. Piotr Andreyevich Pavlenko, 52, "most popular Soviet novelist," who never missed a Kremlin cue, thrice won the Stalin Prize (for his screen scenarios, Alexander Nevsky and The Vow, his 1947 novel, Happiness); of undisclosed causes; in Moscow...
...play is one of Shakespeare's earliest and it is his most frivolous. A group of scholars vow to live three years isolated from all female companionship, but the arrival of a French princess and her female entourage challenges and soon ridicules the pledge. Upon this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after...