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...park. The zoophilist can learn about the world from the animals he sees. For others it is a menagerie and a circus. It is a place for lovers, walking hand in hand; a place for old men to sit in the shade; a place for children and their insatiable search for knowledge...
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shura Cherkassy, with the Santa Monica Civic Symphony, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides). In its search for the unplayed and unrecorded, Concert Hall has exhumed an inferior, uninteresting piece of Tchaikovsky. Performance: fair...
...well-known yarn of beautiful, mysteriously murdered Laura Hunt still has its tingling moments. One of them is when Laura walks into her apartment, big as life, at a tense moment of the search for her slayer. But in general, the problem of who killed the blonde who was mistaken for Laura is much less tense than talky. What's more, the characters are all fairly dull, particularly those who are meant to be most fascinating. As the magnetic Laura, K. T. Stevens proves a washout in everything but looks; and, though Otto Kruger acts the decadent, supposedly brilliant...
Weekends at the Waldorf. "There will always be fastidious people," he said, and refused to cut his staff. He kept tabs on his waiters, studied food (he could tell many blends of coffee by taste), and traveled widely in search of new ideas. Once a year he assembled hotel men and other friends for a gourmet's dinner of California wines, lettuce from irrigated Arizona gardens, and sole flown from the English channel. The Waldorf became an international institution. Princes, ambassadors and Elsa Maxwell filled the suites in its socially topless Towers...
...immediately came running to greet me [with] a come-hither smile full of promise." Later, when the young dentist scaled the betel off the teeth of a native girl in Bangkok, he unwittingly started a fad for gleaming teeth. He was soon swamped with "shy little Siamese ladies" in search of the smile of beauty and the smile of health, who took up so much of his time that he trebled his price...