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This immediately sent political reporters into long columns of feverish speculation. They examined this meager phrase, with all the care of a music critic listening to Lily Pons hitting the F above high C in the mad scene from Lucia. Was Mr. Dewey now a millimeter's distance more...
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt stayed home with a cold. Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh and Lady Decies were, as usual, solidly barnacled with jewelry. Lucius Beebe, who had condescended to the wartime informality of a black tie, apologized: "I feel as naked as a jay bird." Somebody stole a mink coat while...
Black Tires, Black Coffee. The sheer lack of tires, first black-market commodity, has today almost eliminated them from off-the-market deals. But OPA is still catching up with the bootleg tire gangs that flourished in the days when there were still some to bootleg. In contrast, coffee is...
Conductor Pelletier gave Marie Wilkins a week. She practiced herself hoarse and trotted down to the Metropolitan to get some pointers listening to Lily Pons rehearse the score. But she found that Soprano Pons was laid up with laryngitis. Soprano Wilkins agreed to rehearse in her place.
Next day, a few hours before the performance, Soprano Pons was still laid up. Soprano Wilkins managed to assemble a costume out of odds & ends. With the help of Stage Director Desire Defrere, she learned Lakmé's stage business. At 8:30, before a surprised Metropolitan audience, Marie...