Word: four
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Four nights before, long-range R. A. F. bombers, their course beaconed by a convenient eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, had swooped on Naples and inflicted yet more damage on the remaining Italian cruisers and battleships. Report was that the Italian Fleet had fled once more, to hole up somewhere else...
When the curtain of the Met goes up on a newly designed production-as it does three or four times every year-seasoned critics, subscribers and standees are prepared for anything, even the worst. The Met is one of the last great lyric stages in the world, but opera at the Met has a way of prattfalling between two stools. The Met guards the grand operatic tradition, but it also yearns to tickle its public. The Daughter of the Regiment is a tickler...
This small, jolly opera might well get lost in the majestic spaces of the Met. But Viennese-born Stage Director Herbert Graf and Rumanian Scene Designer Jonel Jorgulesco, besides framing the production with its own curtain, brought the four brightly-colored sets as far down stage as possible. Ladislas Czettel designed gay costumes to match Lily Pons's, which was run up by famed, high-priced Dressmaker Valentina. To the military in the original libretto Director Graf added 24 high-stepping vivandieres, explaining: "You cannot think of a regiment with Lily Pons in it without having more female soldiers...
...redhaired, Maine-born Manhattan lawyer, Charles Shipman Payson (whose wife is Jock Whitney's sister Joan) started it all when he started Commentator four years ago. In November 1939, he absorbed defunct Scribner's, and about that time he hired as an assistant editor a modest, handsome young Westerner, George Eggleston, who had worked on the late College Humor, the old Life and the late Listener's Digest...
...giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...