Word: czettel
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This small, jolly opera might well get lost in the majestic spaces of the Met. But Viennese-born Stage Director Herbert Graf and Rumanian Scene Designer Jonel Jorgulesco, besides framing the production with its own curtain, brought the four brightly-colored sets as far down stage as possible. Ladislas Czettel designed gay costumes to match Lily Pons's, which was run up by famed, high-priced Dressmaker Valentina. To the military in the original libretto Director Graf added 24 high-stepping vivandieres, explaining: "You cannot think of a regiment with Lily Pons in it without having more female soldiers...
...Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton, at the Beaux-Arts Diamond Ball, socialites paraded: Mrs. Adolph Spreckels in a $500,000 necklace, Mrs. S. Winston Childs Jr. in diamond-meshed stockings. Cinderella for the night was 20-year-old Theodora Caruso, 5-&-10?-store clerk, escorted by Designer Ladislaus Czettel, who made her a costume...
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