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Bumps & Grinds. There were a few jarring notes. As the operetta's dupe, Eisenstein, Wagnerian Tenor Set Svanholm occasionally staggered like a fugitive from Götterdämmerung. Red-haired Soprano Ljuba (Salome) Welitch sometimes overacted her Rosalinda. Antony Tudor's ballroom ballet was a sour grape. But the singing and acting of the Met's 25-year-old Coloratura Patrice Munsel (as Adele) made up for all of that. Slim, pretty Patrice twice stopped the whole show cold. Her first show-stopping smash, delivered (with the help of new lyrics by Howard Dietz) with...
...goodby party King Paul pinned on the general's jacket the second highest Greek decoration, the George I cross. Van Fleet drank His Majesty's health in grape juice (the Van Fleets are teetotalers), and said: "I should like to say that the one setback I had in Greece was when I asked Her Majesty the Queen not to come to the front. She did not listen to me." Frederika smiled impishly. Paul replied, "It was our duty...
...Almost all foods need makeup. To give that rich look to cream, add a pinch of the deep yellow spice turmeric. A rubbed-on mixture of lipstick and wax improves oranges; grapes should be lightly dusted with talcum powder; paint steaks and roasts with undiluted grape juice. Butter, ironically, looks best when fortified with a little of the coloring usually sold with oleomargarine...
...spot a fake ad than to dig up evidence for a full-fledged antitrust suit, FTC has felt moved to skimp on its more important trustbusting job; it has recently used its august powers on such piddling tasks as telling 1) Northwestern Extract Co. to stop claiming that "Grape Sparkle" contains real grape juice, 2) a small greeting-card company to stop describing its cards as "plateless engraved," and 3) International Laboratories, Inc. to stop advertising that Moone's Emerald Oil will stop skin itch...
Died. Charles Collins Teague, 76, president for 30 years of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, which he built into the huge "Sunkist" agency that now sells most of California's oranges, Federal Farm Board member (1929-31) who first regulated grape production; in Santa Paula, Calif...