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...pleasantest ways in which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter...
...refusing roles which bore him, Sanders has been suspended three times. He does not mind. Suspension leaves him free - to accept more exciting roles from other studios ; to tinker with an obstinately earthbound airplane which he has been inventing for two years ; to sleep, which Sanders regards as the pleasantest thing...
...pleasantest days of soliciting in the history of that arduous activity was made the more enjoyable yesterday by a continual exhibition of shapely and not-so-shapely feminine limbs which made any session at the Revere Beach funhouse look dull by comparison...
...Pleasantest surprise of Purchase is Dancer Vera Zorina, who Technicolors up into a charming comedienne, no longer solely dependent on her main stems...
Scarcely breaking stride, Bing Crosby loped off with a blue ribbon for meeting the Treasury emergency in song. With Connie Boswell, on his Kraft Music Hall hour Thursday night (NBC Red, 9 to 10), he plugged the pleasantest of 1941's patriotic ditties, Irving Berlin's Any Bonds Today? (copyrighted by Henry Morgenthau Jr.), with a brand-new verse...