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...piano, violin, viola, cello or bass. The company's bestseller (20,000 copies) is a household nightmare: Rhythm Section Backgrounds for budding vocalists and various instruments. The best classical seller is an album of Mozart quartets for either violin or flute. Recently, for those who would like something grander than Sing Along with Mitch, Music Minus One began recording famous operas-minus singers...
...culture-nibbling male spinster, a self-centered, vermouth-soggy ex-publisher. Dancing around William at birthdays and get-togethers, they bicker and collide, inflate their roles, deflate their rivals; while darting dandiacally in and out is a successful literary glamour boy, cruelly kind as he hurries off to grander feasts...
These last few walloping scenes can be spendid entertainment. Their blend of unacknowledged incestuous desires, suspected homosexuality, actual heterosexuality, jealousy, revenge, and murder is, even in this production, lively and brisk. But these scenes, in order to make the evening fully worth while, demand emotional acting on a grander scale than the present Warrenton Street group can manage...
...regional offices of St. Paul's Brown & Bigelow with the classy décor suited to the world's biggest manufacturer of advertising calendars and novelties. Last week Yvette Ward got the chance to use her woman's talent for refurbishing on an even grander scale. A week after the death of her husband, B. & B.'s President Charles A. Ward, she moved into his place as president. Hardly had she slipped her trim, horsewoman's figure (124 Ibs.) behind her husband's curved desk than she let everyone know that she meant...
...most significant failure, however, is linguistic. He appears to be trying for a grander idiom than his customary one, and an occasional line reverberates with more than usual spaciousness. But many of the speeches are merely clumsy, as if the author was aiming for an archaic effect and did not know quite how to achieve...