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Organizing beautiful women to help publicize his clients (Piper-Heidsieck champagne, Haig & Haig Scotch, Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston) is the way Manhattan-based Obolensky makes a living. When Alexander's department store in Manhattan decided to compete with rival Ohrbach's in copying original Paris dresses, they automatically turned to Obolensky, who pulled off a smash fashion show using models named Baroness Fiona Thyssen and Princess Ira von Furstenburg. "They were such good girls to do a favor," says Obolensky...
Into the middle-middle-class Fisher family, bickering affectionately in a comfortable old house in North Philadelphia, comes the Show-Off, one Aubrey Piper, a $32.50-a-week clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad freight office. A back-slapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the implacable euphoria of a lobotomy patient, Aubrey woos and wins the Fishers' younger daughter Amy over the vociferous outrage of the rest of the family. Aubrey does everything wrong-lying with grandiloquent transparency, big-spending his way into debt-and as a husband seems to justify every dire prediction of the fuming...
After 43 years, The Show-Off is still a surprisingly good play, albeit a psychologically dated one; today's audience must suspend its natural inclination to see Aubrey Piper as a sick man rather than merely an irritating dreamer. But Miss Hayes bounces things along with such verve and charm that Dr. Freud is not likely to be missed...
Last week it was finally time to pay the piper. Up for auction at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries went 151 items of Guest's choicest Chinese and Meissen porcelain and signed French 18th century furniture. In three hours of furious bidding, collectors, in what was a resounding tribute to Guest's connoisseur taste, bid a handsome $815,275. It was enough to see the Guests safely out of the woods for the moment. But in the tradition of the rich, they could not have appeared to care less. Even before the sale began, Winston had taken...
...eclecticism as it attempts to combine all the classic styles of twentieth century music: the playful dissonance of Prokofieff, the biting sarcasm of Mahler, a Milhaud-like use of jazz, and insistent rhythms at once reminiscent of Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. Combined with the nearly contemporary Town Piper Music of Richard Mohaupt (for the full Band) the work gave the second half of the program a decidedly Broadway cast. In both works Walker and the Band had an opportunity to exhibit the vitality and rhythmic drive that always make them worth hearing...