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...Baron Egmont van Zuylen van Nuyvelt's apartment. The Baron & friends, in a hot game of gin rummy, had overlooked a blaze in the bedroom. The visiting fireman (in dinner jacket, black tie) fell to "with a will for five minutes," it was reported, helped hotel employees drag a hose to the conflagration. Too late: the Baroness' $2,000 mink was just a pile of singed hair...
...music has hit a new low in Shakespearian efforts-an organ which reeks (literally) of Our Gal Sunday. The total effect of the production is, justifiably, an intended speeding-up and modernizing; only the bad taste which croops in occasionally and the inevitable shortcomings of Evans himself drag it down...
...attempt to drag in poor old James Monroe as a co-sponsor of aid to Greece [TIME, March 24] was a rather remarkable feat. I looked up what the Monroe Doctrine says with regard to Europe, and this is it: "Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
...Memory is a study of how the two women react to Luc's disappearance. Françoise has long since given him up for dead, but old Madame La Hourie believes that he will soon return. She hangs out his yellowing shirts to air, orders a servant to drag down from the attic the mattress on which he used to sleep. Françoise tries to humor her mother-in-law's obsession, but in the end becomes almost as obsessed herself...
Jose Limón's girl friend had to drag him to his first modern dance recital. That was 17 years ago. He watched the great German dancer Harald Kreutzberg do his "Angel of Last Judgment," turned to the girl and said: "Charlotte, my God, that's what I want to do!" That kind of dancing, he decided, "looked like something a man could do without being ridiculous." Last week, looking far from ridiculous, Jose Limón and his company danced two of his infrequent recitals before sell-out crowds in New York. Critics now rank...