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...taking thuggish Armandino along on a peaceful holiday. Sample snide caption (in Rome's Il Tempo): "Togliatti is caught by the photographer while he risks a few steps in the open." But it had its greatest fun with Togliatti's natty Alpine wear. To give the final dash to his fancy sport shirt, cardigan and chic knickerbockers, Togliatti sported a daring pair of patrician Argyle stockings. Hooted Rome's weekly Il Borghese: "They are stockings from the window of Old England [a posh Roman haberdashery]. By wearing them, Togliatti has definitely thrown overboard the 'poor...
...year is 1931. Actress Harris, as Sally, is a café singer of doubtful merit but nothing else about her merits any doubt. She is an amoral Junior Mistress with green fingernail polish, a nymph in sheet's clothing. She drinks Prairie Oysters (one raw egg, one dash Worcestershire sauce) for breakfast, stirs her gin with vast quantities of sentimentality. Down and out, Sally meets young Christopher Isherwood, a struggling author. He offers to share his apartment with her. In gratitude, she asks: "Shall we have a drink first, or shall we go right to bed?" But Isherwood...
Success Without Ice. The Danes, who rarely venture far from Copenhagen, have a distinct style of their own. Its originator was the great Danish choreographer, August Bournonville (1805-1879), and a dash of Bournonville was what the balletasters came to Jacob's Pillow for. In two pieces, the dancing lesson called "Konservatoriet" and the pas de deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed...
...alltime torch-singing queens in reissues inspired by the current film about her life, Love Me or Leave Me (TIME, June 6). Ruth Etting is past mistress of the musical affectations of the jazz age-the faint hiccup, the tear in the larynx, the lilting dash into a phrase and the heartbroken sigh as it ends. Today, some of it sounds laughable, but Songstress Etting's languorous sweetness and warmth make most of it sound just fine. Songs range from the razzmatazz rhythms of Shaking the Blues Away and At Sundown to the seductive Mean...
...speed. On the dot of 4 p.m. the 60 sports-car entrants-among them, Mercedes, Jaguar, Ferrari, Frazer-Nash, Maserati, Cunningham-began the 24-hour run. Right after getaway they whipped past the grandstand into the sharp Tertre Rouge turn, roared on down the straightaway on a four-mile dash toward the Mulsanne hairpin, and on around the 8.38 mile circuit past the White House...