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Weird is the word. The Smoky Mountain legend of Barbara Allen and her witch-boy lover in itself is strange and eerie. Made into a "legend with music" by Howard Richardson and William Berney, strikingly performed, and skillfully produced, the tale becomes an unusually dramatic theatrical experience...
District Attorney Burke was slightly baffled at first. If Mrs. Cordova was a witch-even an unsuccessful witch-what could he do about it? He set a deputy to searching the statutes, discovered that a law prohibiting palmistry, mesmerism and seership also made "crafty sciences" illegal. Promptly he jailed Mrs. Cordova; just as promptly she got out-by muttering Spanish phrases, throwing dark glances and posting $1,000 bail...
Free, she lighted a cigaret, stared into the distance, fingered a half pound of religious medals and denied the whole business. "I am not a bruja [witch]," said she. By week's end many of her clients disappointedly agreed: the district attorney had not yet suffered from cramps, colic, or cast in the eye, had apparently felt no overpowering urge to eat glass or stick his head into an airplane propeller...
Official Britain steered clear of Keynes after his 1919 characterization of Lloyd George as a "Welsh witch." But in the depths of 1940 Churchill summoned him back as economic adviser. In effect, he had run the British Treasury ever since. Elected a director of the Bank of England in 1941, he smiled: "Orthodoxy has at last caught up with...
...show how the Met had grown, Taylor last week put on an exhibition entitled "Taste of the '70s." It includes a few good things (notably Frans Hals's Malle Babbe-Crazy Barbara, the Witch of Haarlem), coachloads of coyly draped marbles and candy-box oils. Most popular picture, rescued from the cellar for the occasion, was Pierre Cot's frothy Storm. Judging by reproduction sales in its heyday, Storm came close to being the Met's most popular picture of all time...