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...principals had not been so good, they would have been engulfed by the secondary players. The most outstanding in this group was Victor Altshul as Sergeant Meryll, whose hearty lustiness dominated almost every scene that he was in. His second act duet with Marietta Perl, who made the most of "shrew" part as Dame Carruthers despite a little difficulty with her voice range, was the high point of the show from the comic standpoint...
...from Traviata, would show one lady demonstrating a strange new garment to another. "Caro name" ("Dear name"), from Rigoletto, would show a sugar daddy signing a fat check for his girl friend. Pressagent Williamson (whose clients have included Gladys Swarthout, Ezio Pinza, Helen Traubel) persuaded Austrian-born Artist Susan Perl to put her ideas on paper, found a California manufacturer to print the cartoons on a set of "sip 'n snack" paper napkins. Price: $1 for 36 napkins. Caro name of the series: Grand Uproar...
...York, Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan gave a five-year prison sentence to lanky William Perl (TIME, June 1), 34-year-old jet-propulsion expert and onetime classmate (Manhattan's City College) of Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. It was "abundantly established," said Judge Ryan, that Perl had deliberately lied when he told a federal grand jury that he did not know Rosenberg or Sobell...
...federal grand jury which indicted Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell called Perl in and asked him if he hadn't been palling around with them. He denied it. He denied it again last week in a New York federal court where he was tried for perjury. He repeated over & over, "I do not lie." But other witnesses testified that Perl and the spies (both of whom were his classmates at City College) had been seen together dozens of times and that he had frequently attended meetings of the Young Communist League with them in New York...
...jury found him guilty on two counts of perjury, acquitted him on two others, and recommended clemency. But immediately after the verdict, an assistant U.S. attorney rose and suggested that Perl's troubles were only beginning: the FBI, he said, had information "directly" tying Perl to the Rosenberg spy ring. Perl's $20,000 bail was revoked and he was led off to jail to await further judgment...