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The reaction of the Vatican is not yet known, but in "What To Do With Italy" both Salvemini and LaPiana contend that the Vatican distrusted modern democracy and supported fascism, quoting Pope Plus XI, and Cardinal Merry del Val, who called Mussolini "a man sent by Providence" and "visibly protected...
Henry Ford threw down the gauntlet to a gossip columnist. Merry-Go-Rounder Drew Pearson had broadcast that 80-year-old Ford is not up to his job. Cried the wiry octogenarian: "I can lick him in anything he suggests. I never felt better in my life. I don'...
Visually the New Opera Company's Merry Widow is as up-to-date as a Reno divorce. Smartly streamlined by Director Felix Brentano (a former Max Reinhardt protege) and studded with billowing ballets by George Balanchine, Lehar's masterpiece now looks like something that had just stepped out...
The new Merry Widow left oldtimers in the first-night audience starry-eyed with memories of the 1907 days when Widows Ethel Jackson (see cut) and Lina Abar-banell, in hats reminiscent of poultry dinners, sang it for a Broadway run of 421 performances. In the orchestra pit, conducting its...
To add to The Merry Widow's box-office appeal, the New Opera Company departed from its past policy of using only youthful U.S. unknowns. It hired world-famed Polish Operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura for leading man, gave the part of the Widow to his wife, Marta Eggerth. Redheaded...