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Outside the drab yellow walls of the Covent Garden Opera House last week, Londoners stamped their feet in the foot-numbing chill. Some had been waiting six hours for the gallery door to open. Backstage, Choreographer Frederick Ashton, in a skirt and a high wig, rushed around with last-minute instructions. The occasion was the first new full-length, classic-style ballet Western Europe had seen in 50 years...
Added Sir Leigh Ashton, director of London's Victoria & Albert Museum: "After all, painters have always sought to make an object.Very often they have taken a subject too; but if only this mythical layman could be persuaded instead of looking at the subject to look at the object [the painting itself], he might then be able to appreciate . . . difficult pictures...
...advocated by Senator Melvin Gassaway Ashton in Hollywood's The Senator Was Indiscreet. Ashton's other campaign promises: a $5,000 bonus for everyone who did not serve in the war, refund of all income taxes, with interest...
...Knowing Ears. Raged the Chicago Tribune's fiery Critic Claudia Cassidy, who had plumped hard for hiring Rodzinski: "Chicago's musical future looks bleak indeed when a man like Rodzinski can be arbitrarily fired." Hearst's veteran Chicago Critic Ashton Stevens published a wire he had sent to Rodzinski: "I used to think the Capone mob retarded civilization in Chicago, but tonight I feel that the Orchestra Hall boys [the trustees] have made Al and his gang look like Robin Hood and his merry men. ... So they huddled upstairs and gave you the black sack. . . . God help...
...Senator's speech of acceptance is such a model of reluctance that one opposition paper headlines it: ASHTON BACKS INTO PRESIDENTIAL RACE. When his party boss (Ray Collins) tells him where to get off, he demurely mentions a diary in which, during 35 years of party hacking, he has noted down "Everything"-even What Happened in Boston; yes, even What Happened in Denver. After that The Boys do not hesitate to get behind him heart & soul...