Word: gingold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seated before a serving of calf's head in Manhattan's "21" restaurant, Hermione Gingold, old darling of the London comedy stage, who is now playing her first Broadway hit (John Murray Anderson's Almanac), got off some mouthfuls between mouthfuls. On Englishmen as lovers: "The trouble with most of them is inbreeding-and eating all those Brussels sprouts." On a top-heavy Hollywood starlet: "It's amazing how far a girl can crawl on her bosom...
With Billy DcWolfe and Hermione Gingold, a huge cast, an army of writers, and a program promising thirty-three scenes, Almanac certainly has everything but the kitchen sink. The sink isn't important, but a disposal unit would help. Stripped of many scenes and corresponding hardly at all to the program, John Murray Anderson's bloated revue still forges along for three hours. There is obviously enough material to fill another hour or two, but on Tuesday at least, the show called it quits at 11:30 and sprung a hasty finale on an audience settling down for the night...
Almanac is at its best when Harry Belafonte sings with his intriguing Calypso style and in a few of the sketches for De Wolfe and Miss Gingold. Occasionally bizarre, like "Dinner for One," an aged spinster's banquet for suitors dead and gone, most of these skits have considerable wit and imagination. Though the parody of "Picnic" is rather distasteful, De Wolfe takes a delightful poke at "My Cousin Rachel." Miss Gingold, however, as the dancer, "La Pistachio," provides the most entertaining moments of the revue. Garbed in an uproarious butterfly costume, the lusty old harridan is hilarious...
TIME'S Letters Department finally located Concertmaster Gingold, who had moved from Detroit to Cleveland, and forwarded his address to Reader Efrati. A few weeks later, back came a letter from Efrati announcing that his hunch was right. "I am happy to inform you," he wrote, "that Mr. Josef Gingold has replied to my letter, and he is the cousin I have been looking for during the past 13 years...
...magazine and the way it puts the information in front of the reader, I never miss a single column. I had my reward this week when I unexpectedly discovered something I have spent years looking for." The discovery was the mention of a concertmaster by the name of Josef Gingold, from Detroit. Continued Reader Efrati: "This is the name and most probable profession of my mother's cousin, who, when I last heard, was considered the musical genius of our family. I lost almost my whole family, which was exterminated by the Nazis in Poland. No wonder, then, that...