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Baltimore's resourceful Director Leslie Cheek Jr., who has used colored lights and even smell to attract gallerygoers to his Baltimore Museum of Art, was busy last week wiring his shop for sound. Director Cheek's sound equipment will emit both lectures and soft music through the museum's ventilating system. During the local artists' show this month, the microphones will croon such apt items as Maryland! My Maryland. A subsequent exhibition of Russian icons will be set to Russian Orthodox music...
...lunch he had a bevy of movie stars and as special guest a four-year-old paralysis victim from Manhattan, Gerry King, who swings his tiny legs between crutches-and who, before lunch, created a sensation. When Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour leaned down and smeared a lush kiss on his cheek, Gerry hauled off and socked her in the nose. Cried Dorothy: "Darling! you mustn't do that!" Said Gerry: "I don't want that red stuff...
...lovers, the Abbe Fouquet, betrayed her attempt as part of a conspiracy against the Throne. Most fantastic scene in the book is her midnight rendezvous with the swishy little Prince, she dressed in the robes of an Abbess, he in a white frock. When the Prince stops patting her cheek to offer her candy, she realizes her mistake...
Almost a tradition is "Jeeves," billed as "the jokester-butler" in the publicity pamphlet which Mrs. Barnes has issued to drum up trade for her entertainers. "With his thumb in the soup and his tongue in his cheek, Jeeves does indeed keep the evening on its feet and jumping." What Jeeves does is entirely up to him, and once the party has begun no one knows, least of all the hostess, what's in store. "All I have to do is raise hell in a subtle sort of way," he modestly explains...
...billboard on which to publish his feelings toward his fellow townsmen, that, of course, is his business." Wailed the West Hartford Metropolitan Shopping News: "Perhaps he has forgotten, as many men do today, the teaching of the Good Book which advocates in one place the turning of the other cheek...