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...Theater, which changes its standard opera bill every three weeks). The company-headed by Stage Director Richard Flusser, 29-was launched with a capital of $250 in 1949, lost $2.68 the first season but has been making modest profits ever since. Flusser has more than tripled the original $65-a-week salaries of the six young members of the troupe. After Dinner has been successful because it staged sprightly productions of such new works as British Composer Gerald Cockshott's Apollo and Persephone, Marc Blitzstein's Triple Sec. The troupe scored a critical success in an appearance...
...evil times. Selling matches outside the Ritz, he is rescued from verminous destitution by Emily, who by now has taken to driving a Hispano-Suiza (an equipage which dates the book to Michael Arlen times). The cute chimp has managed to turn herself into Juanita Spaniola. a ?100-a-week exotic dancer, and her vocabulary is more than 500 words-greater than that of today's J. Fred Muggs...
...when it concentrated on defense items, e.g., armor plate, failed to recover its peacetime customers. By 1948 Jessop was almost bankrupt. Then in came a new boss. Frank B. Rackley, 33, whose blacksmith father had encouraged him to read and believe Horatio Alger. While working as a $13-a-week office boy in Pittsburgh, Rackley studied metallurgy at night school, was named Western manager for U.S. Steel's stainless and alloy division when still...
...onetime $18-a-week Trenton, N.J. disk jockey and son of a Hungarian saloonkeeper, Kovacs has been a sort of utility infielder for all three networks. He is not a refugee from other places, but that rare being, a home-grown product of TV-and one of the few fresh and lasting performers in the business. Yet his cultivated madness, often abetted by his wife, Singer Edie Adams, has been delighting and annoying audiences only irregularly and at odd hours since he first leered onscreen seven years ago. Neither Kovacs nor his employer, NBC, seems able to explain why there...
...Wrong Man (Warner). When the true story of Manny Balestrero was printed in the newspapers a few years ago, it made a strange and haunting tale. On the afternoon of Jan. 13, 1953, Balestrero, an $85-a-week bass player at Manhattan's crusty, upper-crust Stork Club, went to the office of a Long Island insurance company to raise a small loan on his wife's policy. The next evening he was arrested and "positively identified" by two of the insurance company's employees as the man who months earlier had robbed the office at gunpoint...