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...case was against a railroad on behalf of a woman who tripped over an umbrella and broke her leg. George filed suit for $40,000. The railroad settled for $10-$5 for the woman, $5 for George. "I was in no mood to dicker," is George's gag line...
Putting two Brahms concertos on one program started as a gag last winter between Arrau and Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, who directed the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra for the concert last week. At intermission, Arrau gulped down gobs of milk, afterwards wolfed a big steak. Said he: "It turned out not just a joke." This week, after hopping up to the Berkshires for a concert at Tanglewood, and to Manhattan for a Lewisohn Stadium appearance, he will take his first vacation in five years...
...families, for whom nearly one-third of the tickets were reserved, and some of the queer fish who have doubled Salzburg's population since V-E day. Salzburg has become an ideal hideout for big-& small-fry Nazis, and has replaced Istanbul as a center for intrigue. (Favorite gag in the Vienna cafés: "If you are not a member of the Nazi Party, then what were you doing in Salzburg...
Investigation showed that the measure was a "gag bill" aimed at one of the legislators, a Rhodes scholar, "who spoke and voted against the successful measure doubling the pay of state legislators...
...future generations as the typical National Socialist-as many scenes as Groucho, Chico and Harpo together. And unlike Margaret Dumont, the gracious Mrs. Rittenhouse of earlier Marx Brothers triumphs, Rumann is not content to remain a foil, and Groucho must contend with him as both a Nazi and a gag-stealer. Harpo, with a new wig and a slightly more fashionable, belt-trailing polo-coat, does his soulful best, but too often must fade out for the sake of the plot. The "situation" routines, a part of the permanent repertoire of the Marx Brothers, were few. Groucho's gags, when...