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...Windsor, I realized that Rita was determined to remodel the Château de l'Horizon on the lines of the Windsor establishment. Prince Ali's maids, who for years had worn gay summer prints and went bare-legged except for formal occasions, were measured for crisp black-and-white uniforms. Rita made them all wear black silk stockings and high-heeled black leather shoes . . . One day when Prince Ali and I were exercising together-we used to throw to each other a pint-sized Indian boy who enjoyed every moment of it-my boss said...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has wisely stifled its ambitions. School for Scandal is not a taxing play, for even when done with mediocrity, it is funny. When it is enhanced with production and acting genius, as it was three years ago by the legitimate Brattle, the play becomes cruel and crisp, satanic in with and snapping in exposition...
Last week, her once-blonde hair a crisp iron grey, Carmelita Hinton. 64, briskly announced that she would step down as head of Putney July 1. She added: "I hate to leave, but I have so many things before me that I'm boiling over." Founder Hinton's successor: Admissions Director Henry Benson Rockwell, a personable Princetonian ('37) who came to Putney from Connecticut's Pomfret School three years...
Near the bottom of the program comes the line "Axel Diensen. . . Alfred Lunt," the first tip-off to the pre-curtain speculator that this might not be the crisp nonsense he expects. Then the curtain goes up and it is clear that Mr. Coward and Mr. Lunt are equally dubious about this Diensen fellow. Diensen, it turns out, is a Minnesota railroad baron who, by the author's admission, doesn't fit into the life of either Boston or Belgrave Square. Diensen doesn't seem at home on the stage of the Colonial either...
Leonardo was perhaps the most skilled painter who ever lived: he pictured bread on the table to seem near and crisp as bread on one's own table at home, and he could make even a little segment of sky as wide and mysterious as the sky itself. Beyond that, he could bind many different things, men and emotions into one unchanging harmony. The Last Supper incorporates all these powers, and more. It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history-and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted...