Word: staidness
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Exporting English culture as energetically as Britons ever did in the palmy days of Empire, cricketers of the staid old Marylebone Cricket Club began their tour of Pakistan this winter by roughing up some hotel servants in Karachi. "A bit of tomfoolery," said the diplomatic hotel manager. Then the ambassadors of good will moved to Dacca, where they squirted soda water over other hotel guests. Polite Pakistani laughed it all off as mere youthful enthusiasm. Last week, the Pakistani stopped laughing...
Brass Bite. Prawy began by putting Sam and Bella Spewack's slangy, sprightly spoof of Shakespeare and show business into sprightly, slangy German. Then, to give the Cole Porter score bite, he put an edge on the staid Volksoper orchestra in the form of a dozen Viennese axmen, most of whom cut up in brass. To keep the musicians jumping, he imported Conductor Julius Rudel of Manhattan's City Opera Co. He also imported his key principals from the U.S.: handsome Brenda Lewis of the Metropolitan Opera (Kate), and two relative unknowns, both Negroes, Olive Moorefield (Bianca...
...late 19303 the club sounded one of the first alarms against shipment of U.S. scrap iron to Japan; in 1938 it dramatically began picketing Japanese ships loading scrap on the Seattle waterfront. Recalls Harley: "The staid gentlemen in our membership walked side by side with left-wing fringe groups who happened to be taking the same position at the time...
...Friends Only. The craving for the "don't-give-a-damn" pills is not confined to Hollywood. In staid Boston the demand is as keen, but less shrill. It is the same in New York City, Washington...
...Then he quit a Pennsylvania advertising job and bought Bermuda's Swizzle Inn, a rum-punch spot, later added a nightclub called Angel's Grotto. The genteel ginmill business put him in contact with Manhattan cafe society and entertainment types, and he began spending less time with staid Bermudians, more with exciting Americans. By last December his wife had divorced him; he had been named corespondent in a divorce suit, and was dating Royce Wallace, caramel-skinned veteran of seven Broadway shows and Manhattan hotspots who had flown in to sing at the Grotto. On Christmas...