Word: cinderellas
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...Mississippi, he never dreamed that he was anticipating a fashion trend for 1953. But last week, in shops and stores across the land, no cloth was selling faster, or in more colorful varieties, than once drab, once humble denim. For the U.S. textile industry, it is the Cinderella cloth that became queen of the ball...
Their mills, which were turning out only 190 million yards of denim eight years ago, this year will produce more than 450 million yards. For the ailing U.S. cotton industry, long ago threatened by rayon and more recently by the newer synthetics like dacron and orlon, the coronation of Cinderella denim proved that where there is a way to make homely cottons attractive there is a will...
...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...
...Berg's Wozzeck and Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges, last week did a turnabout. It wet its thumb, leafed back through the decades, and uncovered a neglected oldtimer that had not been heard in Manhattan since the days of Andrew Jackson: Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). It left the opening-night audience whooping with delight...
...story came across clearly: poor-but-beautiful Cinderella (Frances Bible) falls in love with the prince-in-disguise (Riccardo Manning), who marries her because he knows she loves him for himself, not just for his title. Gioacchino Rossini and his librettist left out all references to fairy godmothers, pumpkins and glass slippers. But Rossini filled his work with a cloudburst of pretty tunes whose lightning changes of mood had a magical charm of their...