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...Gilt & Elbow Grease. However, few Britons will concede that Britain has lost anything of her basic vitality or human potential. The show will go on, as colorfully as possible. Last week Covent Garden, London's Royal Opera House, which jitterbugging G.I.s used as a dance hall during the war, reopened with a gala performance of the Tchaikovsky ballet Sleeping Beauty. The King and Queen, Queen Mary and the Princesses arrived in their gleaming Daimlers. A photographer, kneeling in the crush, tugged at a trousered leg, begged: "Give us a break, will you, George." He was embarrassed when the King...
...there were only two tiaras. And Covent Garden's scarlet-&-gold opulence had been restored mostly by mere elbow grease. Explained the manager: "Very little new paint has been used, and then only in cases where it was necessary for cleanliness. . . . There is hardly a spot of new gilt anywhere in the theater...
This week Howard Lindsay and Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse were gilt-edging the gag that once dubbed them "the most successful collaborators since the Smith Brothers." They had written the biggest smash, thus far, of the season.* They had, unprecedentedly in Broadway history, two current hits that had opened six years apart, † And with eleven years of co-authoring, co-adapting, co-producing behind them, they had seven successes to their credit against one lone flop (Strip for Action...
Married. Charles Vidor,* 45, director of plushy, gilt-edged films (Cover Girl, A Song to Remember); and Doris Warner LeRoy, 33, daughter of cinema Tycoon Harry B. Warner and former wife of Director Mervyn LeRoy; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hollywood...
...Carpets were laid, a bar installed, and a brand-new international round table built-a plywood ring, 14 feet in diameter, set on brown varnished legs. Separate chambers were provided for each of the foreign ministers. Mr. Molotov had the most elegant: a paneled room with towering mirrors and gilt scrollwork which was once the Duchess of Sutherland's boudoir...