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...Duke of Kent visited Hyde Park and Eleanor Roosevelt told reporters that food in general and fruit in particular was a topic of conversation. He had told, she said, that in Canada his eyes had beheld for the first time in many months an orange and a banana...
Obituaries gave his age as "around 82." But "old pals" suspected he must be nearer 95. At least 15 years ago his boss sent him to a Paris kidney specialist. Never, said the specialist, whistling in admiration, had he beheld such a perfectly preserved set of rognons in a man over...
...spare the handsome hide of Matador Power, Armillita, the Babe Ruth of Mexican matadors, bats for him in the bullfight scenes. Last week Armillita was doing double duty. While U.S. cinemaddicts watched his classic cape-work in Blood and Sand, Mexicans beheld it in an equally new but quite different picture - a Posa Films production starring Mexico's fun niest comedian, Cantinflas. Its title: Neither Blood Nor Sand...
Illustrator Joseph St. Amand staggered out of a Los Angeles cinema where he had just beheld legsome Susan Hayward in Adam Had Four Sons (see p. 93), summoned all his superlatives, and announced the formation of a "Perfect Legs Institute of America," for which he (and a corps of press agents) demanded that Cinemactress Susan be drafted as president. Geewhizzed Artist St. Amand, who envisages a comprehensive "Academy of Feminine Perfection" as a sort of penultimate holding company of compelling female corporeality: "Not only does she have perfect legs; she has the poise and the intellect necessary...
This season Manhattan has seen more spins, leaps, foot-twiddles than it ever had before: 14 weeks of Russian ballet. Last week the Russians (two troupes managed by Impresario Sol Hurok) were on tour. In a smallish theatre a plushy audience (which included Mr. Hurok) beheld a ballet company which seemed as corny as they come. The coryphees were wildly out of step with one another and with the music. The men wore tights, jackets and bow ties which looked like three-a-day vaudeville. The prima ballerinas, apparently a haughty Italian, a frizzy-headed Frenchwoman, an intense Russian, wobbled...