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...plebiscite next June. Italians had always snickered at little (5 ft. 3 in.) Vittorio Emanuele, cursed him for abetting Mussolini's war. They liked towering (6 ft.) Queen Elena well enough; but they could never quite forget that she was a foreigner from Montenegro (once famed for its brisk export trade in marriageable princesses). Playboy Crown Prince Umberto, though abler than his parents, would probably have to join Europe's swelling ranks of unemployed royalty. His son, the ten-year-old Prince of Naples, was the dynasty's last feeble hope. He was oblivious of such adult...
...brisk, fanciful animation of the instruments in Benny Goodman's Quartet. Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet, a love story about a couple of hats, sung with proper gentleness by the apparently muzzled Andrew Sisters, with some neat bits of emoting by Johnny...
...since long before the war had Paris had so brisk and booming a theater season. Fifty-two legitimate plays, most of them sellouts, were nightly on the boards, and there was a rash of musicals. Cracked Les Lettres Françaises: "The number of theaters will soon exceed les bars americains...
...World War II wondered how they had ever gotten along without her. She listened to their troubles, cheered them out of their loneliness. Most of the time she was heavily engaged in defeating the elaborate stratagems of overambitious wolves. But it never upset her brisk good humor. Sample brush-off: "No bridgehead, enjine-eer! You can't make a runway outa these soft shoulders...
Sixth Avenue's fuddled prostitutes, marginally employable, are looked down upon by their brisk Eighth Avenue sisters...