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...tweedy men and chiffoned women of one of the oldest, handsomest and rottenest aristocracies in Europe munched Europe's creamiest cream puffs. At Ro-sati's, they sipped their Martinis under the blind eyes of an ominous, seven-foot statue of Augustus Caesar, Rome's first Emperor-tyrant. And only five miles away, in an almost perfect circle, stretched the filthy, swarming manheaps of the Roman slums. The worst of them was nicknamed "Shanghai"-which to Italians is a synonym for total degeneracy. Here 15,000 Romans lived in one-room shacks; watermarks on the walls, above...
Colorful Cabinet. Even so, there were many who were not amused. Prudish Lewis Carroll found the expression "Damn me!" in H.M.S. Pinafore "sad beyond words," and Queen Victoria decided that what was sauce for the Emperor of Japan in The Mikado was a lot too saucy for her in Utopia, Limited (an almost forgotten G. & S. opera in which members of the British Cabinet were portrayed as blackface minstrels). Certain noble ladies forbore to confess with the mercenary Duchess in The Gondoliers...
...tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long had a fixation on the Emperor Concerte...
...Contentment. To Americans, Quebec's best-known resort is Mont Tremblant, where lodge, inn and 60 cottages are laid out like a French Canadian village. Joseph ("Emperor Joe") Ryan, Philadelphia-born grandson of famed Thomas Fortune Ryan, has sunk $2,000,000 in Mont Tremblant since 1938, now grosses $600,000 a year from rates ranging from $7 to $14 a day (with meals...
...odes to daybreak entered last week in Japan's annual imperial poetry contest. The work of Emperor Hirohito himself, it was composed in a railway carriage enroute to the much-bombed town of Mito. The prizewinning poem (by a lesser author...