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...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...
...quite a spot. Even if the latter brings on George Brent and the former are the sort who can jitterbug at the age of ten, the maternal instinct makes the conflict near to insoluble. In fact, if it weren't for the ingenuity of the script writer, Barbara Stanwyck might have lost her boys, her reputation, and her mind, as well as her heart...
...presidential train rolled west, Winston Churchill fiddled with his speech until his press relations man finally got it away from him for mimeographing. The old man chatted with Harry Truman, showed off his knowledge of American history, made a creditable stab at reciting from memory Whittier's Barbara Frietchie: "Up from the meadows rich with corn, clear in the cool September morn. . . ." According to his custom, before dinner he rapidly downed five Scotch highballs...
Three to Make Ready (music by Morgan Lewis; sketches and lyrics by Nancy Hamilton; produced by Stanley Gilkey and Barbara Payne) bobbed up, after a series of slithering musicomedies, as the season's first revue. But the change of pattern provided little change of luck. Despite having Dancer Ray Bolger (On Your Toes, By Jupiter), a star with about the nimblest feet in show business, Three to Make Ready slithers too. Its music is tepid and tacky. Most of its skits are not funny at all and the rest are not funny enough...
...Barbara Hutton, whose first was Prince Alexis Mdivani, whose second was Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and whose third was Gary Grant, swore rather faintly that she was swearing off. The wheat-blond, Ry-Krisp-thin dime-store heiress told the Hearst press: "I'm not going to get married again as long as I live. I hope...