Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honest and hearty congratulations to Mr. Boyer on his timely escape from the Casbah; ditto to M. Sartre on a really intelligent, gripping play...
...Israel recently an American ex-Army captain tried to marry a Jewess. A rabbi refused to officiate (because the captain was not a Jew); ditto a district commissioner (because he was not a British subject). He was turned down by an Anglican church in Jaffa (because the bride was not a Christian) and by a Greek Orthodox priest (who considered both outside his flock). A ship captain said he could perform the ceremony by taking them on a special trip beyond the three-mile limit. But when he quoted his price, the couple decided it would be cheaper...
...says Billy, is close to $4,000. "Why, then, wouldn't it be smart to present two operas a week instead of five or six? ... Why not play Carmen the first half of the week and, let's say, Der Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season's repertory" . . . And when the season is over, "why not open the Opera House ... to operettas such as Porgy and Bess, Show Boat, Oklahoma! . . . There's [a] fundamental axiom of show business the Met . . . continues to overlook-a dark house doesn...
About the participants there is little to be said except to commend them all. The chorus sang excellently, and they knew exactly what they were doing, which is always a help. Ditto for the orchestra. The soloists, Ellen Faull, Eunice Alberts, David Lloyd, and George London, were almost uniformly fine (I found the Agnus Dei particularly well done), and over them all was Koussey, red-faced and snorting, combining his usual technical perfection with a magnificent conception of what it was all about, outdoing himself, as the saying goes. Champagne and lotus blossoms for all hands...
...Lord Chancellor, "is much easier to keep than me own." He answered a personal question that had been on many a plain citizen's mind. How was it in that long judicial wig, in the summer? The Lord Chancellor's reply for history: "Very uncomfortable." And ditto for the sack of wool which tradition makes...