Arts and Manners

Two Cheers for Betty Furness, none for Stevenson

Our learned and knowing contemporary, the New York Daily News, announced in a general preview of the Republican shindig in San Francisco that “the entire convention will be tailored for the vast TV audience, with short speeches, plenty of music and entertainments and stunts.” This, indeed, was what we were afraid of the preceding five days, looking at a TV spectacular that purported to be Democracy in Action.