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...Maid in the Ozarks (by Claire Parrish; produced by Jules Pfeiffer) reached Broadway after five years of racketing about the country (TIME, March 29, 1943). Before running up the curtain, Producer Pfeiffer set a Broadway precedent by running down the play. Said his outsize newspaper ads: "The management of Maid in the Ozarks believes that the . . . critical consensus will be that this . . . is the worst play that has ever hit Broadway...
...Shirley Weadock had gone to Cambridge, Mass. to interview Luckman and investigate the U.S. phase of Lever Bros.' activities. The night they finished their work Luckman asked them to dinner at his home. His wife cooked the dinner because, Luckman explained, "you just can't keep a maid these days with three small boys in the house." On his way home next day by train, Hagy got hungry, bought an indigent hamburger, went to bed with food poisoning...
...best performance last week was that of a mute who didn't sing a note. This week Menotti's seven-year-old opera bouffe, The Old Maid and the Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan...
Another surprise was the abundance of servants. "At home in Washington I hadn't been able to get servants for ages. Here I have a housekeeper, a gardener, [and] we will probably get a maid or nurse for the children...
Vincent d'lndy: Istar, Symphonic Variations (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 3 sides). A strip tease on records. The theme of the score comes only after seven variations have been played, to indicate that the Babylonian maid, Istar, has just thrown off her final veil. Performance: lush...