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Chefoo to Cheesecloth. Thornton was certainly different. Whatever school he attended-the Kaiser Wilhelm School in Shanghai, where his father served as consul general, the missionary school at Chefoo, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., the Thacher School at Ojai, Calif.-he was the delight and despair of his teachers. A shy, skinny boy in knee pants, he was wrapped in a cloud of make believe; his greatest pleasure was to dress his sisters up in cheesecloth and get them to act one of his own one-act plays...
Teetotalitaricm Edict. One evening last year, at the house of a favorite drinking companion-British Vice Consul Cyril Ousman-a third son of Ibn Saud's got tight and began making passes at a house guest from England. Ousman threw the young prince out. Next day, still drunk and blind with rage, the prince showed up, demanding the girl for his private collection. Once again Ousman tried to throw him out. The prince drew a pistol and began firing. The vice consul was killed, his wife wounded...
Died. José P. Melencio, 58, chief of the Philippine mission in Japan, who first gained fame at 26 by his eloquent plea for Philippine independence before the 1920 Democratic National Convention, in 1946 became the first consul general of the Philippine Republic in New York City; of a heart attack; in Tokyo...
...Philadelphia last week, famed Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, 63, came out of a three-year retirement to solo with the Philadelphia Orchestra. His reason: he wanted to play the world premiere of Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti's Violin Concerto in A Minor...
...present, Menotti will be busy directing new performances of his operas: Amahl and the Night Visitors for TV on Christmas Day (he had to find a new boy soprano, since two earlier ones are teetering on the vocal edge of manhood) and a concert performance of The Consul in Philadelphia next month. After that he will concentrate on the score and libretto of The Saint of Bleecker Street, which "may take me five years. I don't care. I have been reading about saints. It is very difficult...