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...some, Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer may appear an invincible argument against "Escape." But the Pomona College hot-dog has grown into a serious-minded actor of ability; and Norma Shearer, if not your dream girl, makes a very satisfactory countess from E. 57th St. The atmosphere is thick with Nazi ideology: uniforms, clicking heels, and subdued voices. The swastika is very photogenic and provides exciting plot material. Exciting, but perhaps too true to be good...
Soprano Maynor, whose patroness (Miss Mary Hayden of Boston) had to buy her debut gown last year, is now in the bank-account class. She has moved from Manhattan's Harlem to musical West 57th Street. Besides singing with the four major symphony orchestras (New York Philharmonic, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago), she made a triumphant concert return to Hampton Institute, in whose choir her voice began. This season Dorothy Maynor has engagements in 27 States, is making two big cross-country tours. Boxofficially she is not yet the peer of big-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson, who sells out Carnegie Hall...
...Manhattan's 5th Avenue and 57th Street one morning last week two heavy glass doors revolved, admitted the first of 14,000 opening-day gawkers to Tiffany & Co.'s new store. Before them in fluorescent-lighted showcases lay the toniest U. S. jeweler's dazzling stock: diamond solitaires up to 20½ carats (price: $100,000), pearls (up to $243,000 a string), emeralds, sapphires. The radiance of thousands of stones seemed to spread out and warm the visitors, an effect increased by spotlights hidden in the high soundproofed ceiling. Said Mrs. John F. Bigelow, a Tiffany...
Adam was resold for about $8,000 to a British dress manufacturer named John Herbert, who shipped him to the U. S. on what he hoped would be a money-making junket. Last week Adam arrived in Manhattan, was unveiled to the U. S. public at 57th Street's Fine Arts Galleries, at 50? a peek. All indications were that, as a come-on curiosity, Adam might run a close second to John Wilkes Booth's mummy or the Cardiff giant. Said a weary gallery attendant: "It's enough to make a fella blush...
...their tiny, sixth-floor offices at 1 East 57th St., Betsy Blackwell's editorial staff of 15 are beginning to feel cramped. As soon as they are sure that Mademoiselle is no fly-by-night lady, they intend to shorten her name to Mlle. Meanwhile, they call her Milly...