Word: banqueted
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...Angeles officials and Hollywood celebrities turned out for a banquet honoring Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika. Among the entertainers was talented, sexy Eartha Kitt, who sang songs such as Santa Baby and I Want to Be Evil. Next day, some of Los Angeles' councilmen were shocked. Said one: "It was low-level entertainment, repugnant to all decent citizens." Eartha's songs, according to Mayor Morris Poulson, were "filthy, risque and off-color." Eartha herself pleaded not guilty. Said she: "I can't understand it. I didn't think it was possible to shock...
...idea, apparently, was to send yet another dog after the scraps from Annie Get Your Gun's box-office banquet. Instead of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, the lovers in this opus are Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, together with such a subsidiary tangle of interlocking triangles that the audience may need a logarithm table to figure...
...silver an gold cornice above the library's front window. One student donated two Alaskan gods sculptured in a style combining prehistoric and ultra-modern art. They stare at each other across the library and supposedly symbolize diseased minds. On another wall hangs a Chinese painting of a banquet, given the Clinic as a Christmas present. And throughout the house, Oriental art covers the walls, providing an exotic background for the laboratory's mental therapy...
Almanac is at its best when Harry Belafonte sings with his intriguing Calypso style and in a few of the sketches for De Wolfe and Miss Gingold. Occasionally bizarre, like "Dinner for One," an aged spinster's banquet for suitors dead and gone, most of these skits have considerable wit and imagination. Though the parody of "Picnic" is rather distasteful, De Wolfe takes a delightful poke at "My Cousin Rachel." Miss Gingold, however, as the dancer, "La Pistachio," provides the most entertaining moments of the revue. Garbed in an uproarious butterfly costume, the lusty old harridan is hilarious...
...banquet in London. Labor's Deputy Opposition Leader Herbert Morrison complained that every time he dutifully criticizes Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, he gets a flood of abusive mail, mostly from women, berating him for attacking "dear Sir Winston." Recalled Morrison wryly: "Once I asked . . . 'Winston, do you ever get letters when you attack me?' . . . He didn't remember that he ever...