Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
...making all hands talk like characters out of Ernest Hemingway, he might have written a very good novel. His ending will strike some readers as tragic, some as sugary-depending on what the reader makes of it. Altogether, pliable ending and all, it seems made to order for Gary Cooper, who has just paid $40,000 for the screen rights...
...Kousscvitzky Foundation in 1945 and received its first performance under Boris Goldovsky's direction at Tanglewood in 1946. It takes a turn back to pre-Wagnerian opera with recitative and arias. The orchestra is subordinated to action on the state, though, judging by Thursday night's performance, Conductor Emil Cooper must think the opposite. The music is full of the sea--powerful and unsympathetic. It is a fine mood setting for the vicious fishing village, and Grimes' proscription by the other inhabitants is well portrayed. There are several numbers which stand out: the quartet the end of the first scene...
Last week Manhattan's dignified Cooper Union put on a show whose purpose was to track the cat through history with the help of sculpture, painting and design. It took more than 250 separate items (in an exhibit entitled "Nine Lives") to spread out the story: from the Egyptians' poker-faced cat-headed goddess Bast to the Chesapeake & Ohio's pampered, machine-age Chessie...
...Cooper Union's official catalogue-comment avoided larger conclusions about the whole thing: "It seems safe to let the cat, as he is represented in the present display, speak for himself; safe, or at least the part of wisdom...