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...reminisce about buxom Sophie Abuza of Hartford, Conn., who became Sophie Tucker and made the long haul from singing in the ginmills to the Ziegfeld Follies and the big time. Now pushing 70 and white-thatched, "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" will soon open a four-week stint at Manhattan's Latin Quarter. Said she, dabbing her eyes: "Some of the showmen who were around when I began, they're still around, dearie, but very few of the women are around." Sophie shook her head: "I stood up, I stood...
...This week the company began its tour with a four-week visit in Manhattan's packed Metropolitan Opera House. Famed Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, fully recovered from a six months' bout with the aftereffects of diphtheria, headed the cast again, and among the lesser stars were Violetta Elvin, Nadia Nerina, Rowena Jackson, Michael Somes and a promising newcomer to the troupe, Svetlana Beriosova. Opening-night number: a full-length version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, with sparkling new costumes and scenery and changes in the choreography which lengthened the 58-year-old masterpiece to a full four acts...
...painting and sculpture, carefully packaged for a nationwide good-will tour of the U.S. In the past five months the show has drawn fascinated crowds in Washington and Manhattan; last fortnight, before doubling back to Chicago and Boston, the exhibition arrived aboard a specially refrigerated freight car for a four-week stay at the Seattle Art Museum...
There will be plenty of pressure on the California delegates from now until Warren frees the delegation in Chicago. Last week Ike's California strategists sat for eight hours in a room at San Francisco's Palace Hotel, drinking coffee, eating buttered snails and planning a four-week splurge that may even make California's eyes pop. They will bombard the delegates with mail and telegrams, have helicopters drop out of the sky to pick up signatures on Ike petitions, and otherwise seek to show that the voters want Ike. There is talk that some...
During her four-week U.S. visit, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands threaded her way through the niceties of diplomatic protocol and the hazards of civil welcoming committees with unaffected good humor. (In Detroit, after the mayor had stepped on her train for the third time, she was heard to murmur: "My God, not again!") Before leaving for Canada, she topped her tour with a visit to some of the kings & queens of Hollywood, where photographers caught her getting the leading-lady treatment from Old Star Spencer Tracy and Producer Dore Schary...