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Rita did not disappoint her faithful followers. From Manhattan, she regally announced her plans for a "legal and permanent separation" from Aly Khan, heir to fabulous wealth and her erstwhile partner in an international courtship that lifted eyebrows around the world...
With all this inexperience in varsity competition showing, Barnaby expects his team to get off to a slow start. "It may even disappoint some of the players," he says. But he thinks the potential which they have shown so far can be developed so that they may surprise even themselves by the end of the season. "I have no illusion about the present, but high hopes for the future" is a summing up of Barnaby's outlook for the season...
Siepi had to cancel his engagement at La Scala to sing at the Met this season. Last week he was set to disappoint La Scala again; he plans to return to the Met next season. Said La Scala's Franco Capuana sadly: "Here all the theaters want him. We will suffer much by his absence. America has gained...
...Irish 'Disappoint of Year...
...Vaudevillians Burns & Allen are not likely to disappoint their fans. Pointing up Gracie's gags, Straightman George uses a slow-burn delivery and purse-mouthed pauses ("A man drowned once while I was pausing"). Compared to the machine-gun patter of most TV comics, his style gives the show a relaxed, almost leisurely pace. A high point of the program: Gracie's dubious plugs for Carnation Milk ("I don't see how they get milk from carnations...