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...side, under a blazing tropical sun, builders, bricklayers, tile setters, linemen, street sweepers and landscape gardeners were laboring, at a cost of perhaps $2,000,000, to ready their city for the arrival of the great men of SEATO (see above). The government of soft-spoken Strongman Marshal Phi-bun Songram, warm advocate of the West, hoped that the new treaty organization might even choose Bangkok as its permanent home...
...second oldest museum (after Manhattan's) devoted solely to modern art. It was also paying warm tribute to the museum's scholarly director, Dr. Grace L. McCann Morley, 54. A woman who prefers tailored suits, sensible shoes, and wears her hair straight back in a bun, Director Morley, despite her retiring ways, has proved herself a dynamo in action. Her efforts have helped turn San Francisco into one of the nation's most enthusiastic strongholds of modern...
...current history's most spectacular Cinderella story, the life of Eva PerÓn is a logical subject for cinema treatment. Last week a winsome Parisian actress, her blonde hair combed back and tied in a bun as Evita used to wear hers, was in Buenos Aires seeking the leading role...
...design by 71-year-old Sculptress Mary Gillick. "Absurd to do that with the poor girl," sniffed one Londoner of Mrs. Gillick's work. "Made her look like a schoolgirl and she's really quite regal." Others objected to the sculptured royal nose and the laurel-wreathed, bun-backed hairdo. "Not a good likeness, as far as I can judge," humphed famed non-likeness-making Sculptor Epstein. "Look what they've done to our Queen," piped one shrill critic. "Made her neck too long." "I should say," said another sculptor whose own design had been rejected...
Finishing the evening in their native element, the Theatre Ballet put on Pineapple Poll--another premiere--adapted from Gilbert's Bab Ballad. True to the Gilbert and Sullivan formula, tragedy and comedy have play, in this case on board the H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Elaine Fifield shows great talent for the comically forlorn gesture in her futile attempt to attract the Captain (David Blair), who keeps a crew of ladies in disguise...