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...house lights dimmed on La Scala's gilt and maroon, and the packed audience sat back to size up an unprecedented debutante: Coloratura Soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs, 27, of Atlanta, Ga., the first Negro ever to win a principal role at La Scala...
...cocottes, Gigi shocks here family by holding out for a proposal rather than a proposition. From the irony of conventional immorality, the play draws its humour, most appealing in the less hurried scene in which Gigi learns that a carat is mineral, not vegetable. With cluttered parlor and gilt boudoir, hour-glass corsets and knowing looks, the play elegantly recreates Paris...
...regime, Mossadegh's personal representative at Abadan, his top vote-getter in Teheran. Makki liked to say that anyone who opposed his boss ought to be killed. Makki was also ambitious. The most conspicuous object in his living room is a six-foot, gilt-framed portrait of his craggily handsome head...
...Last Laugh is the triple A, gilt edge part of the German silent-picture oaring. The title and billing suggest that it is a comedy, but actually it is the tragic story of an old man demoted from the splendor of his position as a doorman at a plush hotel to the ignominy of washroom attendant duty. The scenes of the man clinging pitifully to his braided doorman's coat, counterpointed only by the maudlin humor of a drunken party, play up the pathos of this demotion very effectively. The title refers to a purposely incongruous ending, one which...
...next few years, Muriel's income was small and irregular. (She later claimed she lost about $35 on every decorating job she did.) But in a succession of shabby East Side New York apartments, generally furnished with a few gilt chairs and remnants of the splendors of 19A Edith Grove, she once again became a famous hostess. By 1929, when she published Music at Midnight, a lively memoir of her European triumphs, Muriel's parties were a focus for visiting artistic lions and earnest contributors to the little magazines. Muriel helped to keep excitement alive by outrageous remarks...