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Scarlatti-Tommasini: The Good-Humored Ladies; Bach-Walton: The Wise Virgins (the Concert Arts Orchestra, Robert Irving conducting; Capitol). Two ballet scores, dating respectively from 1917 and 1940. The Ladies, adapted by Italian Composer Vincenzo Tommasini from the works of Scarlatti, is airy, bright, bubbling, and contains scarcely a note that does not please the ear. The Virgins, adapted from the works of Bach by England's William Walton, is unfailingly evocative of a less harried time. Neither of the ballets survives as a stage work, but their music deserves a better fate-and gets it here...
...Alice Roosevelt Longworth (as Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, her fondness for a certain shade of blue inspired In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown, a song far more enduring than any in Mr. President); Colombian Ambassador Carlos Sanz de Santamaria and his wife; and Artist William Walton...
Last week the government revised its antigambling laws in order to permit the completion of a miniature Las Vegas outside Seoul. Located on Walker Hill, which is named after the late U.S. General Walton H. Walker who led the U.N. campaign during the Korean war, the $3,800,000 complex will have five hotels, 13 motels, a 500-seat nightclub, and a gambling casino. Financed mainly by the Park government itself, the pleasure project is designed to attract foreign exchange from U.S. G.I.s who previously had traveled to Japan on their leaves...
...manager lined up five shot glasses-all with identical fluted bottoms, all exactly the same size and shape. But one held five-eighths of an ounce, the next three-quarters, the next seven-eighths, the next one ounce and the last an ounce and a quarter. Says George Walton, owner of the American Bartenders School in Chicago: "Most shot glasses today are sort of an optical illusion. Some of them taper so much on the inside that you can't even get your little finger into the bottom of the glass." What looks like solid whisky is usually nearer...
...HANDS OF ESAU, by Hiram Haydn (784 pp.; Harper; $7.50). It is the summer of a middle year for Walton Herrick, but it seems to him the winter of his lifetime. His third wife quits him and with her go their children. What a time to be urged to run for Governor! What a time to be caught in the clash of two cliques down at the foundation! Herrick-man of both sensitivity and substance-is in a Nixonian crisis or worse, and it causes his whole life to pass before his eyes. The process requires 784 pages, a great...