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...Bing brought it off beautifully," reported the society editor of the New York Daily News. She was referring to the social glitter of the Metropolitan Opera's opening night, but the judgment was just as applicable to the business onstage. With Don Carlo for an opener (TIME, Nov. 13), new General Manager Rudolf Bing had handsomely kept his promise to bring operatic productions up to date. Furthermore, he had made money doing it. An audience of 4,000 had packed the big house (paying a $36 top) to give him the biggest opening-night gross (after taxes...
...they opened their first store, The Great American Tea Co., on Manhattan's Vesey Street. They used all the glitter and tinsel of a circus. The store was painted a flaming red ("real Chinese vermilion") ; red, white & blue globes dangled resplendently in its windows, a huge gaslit "T" glowed above its door. Their first ads cried: "There's good news for the ladies." They had other come-ons: on Saturday nights they handed out dishpan premiums and lithographs of babies while a band played a song that was providentially popular at the time, "Oh, this...
Boris Aronson's sets are wonderfully faithful to the Odetsian scene. The squalor of a one-room flat is accented by a flowering red plant, an empty stage by a dramatic shadow. In a Broadway dressing room there is a feeling of glitter. Mr. Odets has directed the play himself, and except for a slow paced first act, his staging is effective...
...size and glitter, "the biggest picture of all time" was not stirring the expected commotion in Rome. The staggering preparations and frantic bustle out at MGM's "Hollywood on the Tiber" were only mildly amazing to modern Romans. In the wineshops, the talk was of the women telephone operators out at Cinedtta who these days answer with a cheery: "Good morning. Quo Vadis...
Shudders & Secrets. Writing "as objectively as possible," Gunther is obviously too dazzled by the Roosevelt glitter to do a balanced job. Even when he concedes F.D.R.'s political deviousness and lack of candor, he is much more interested in finding excuses for them than in showing their damaging consequences. They "arose not so much out of duplicity but from . . . agreeableness . . . and his marked distaste for hurting friends...