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Any habitue of the Metropolitan Opera House and purlieu is bound to get a good many chuckles from Mare Simont's book, "Opera Souffle." The volume consists entirely of 60 pictures "in bravura," which is merely the opera lover's way of saying that they are all impertinently witty comments...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxo, | Title: At the Met | 12/1/1950 | See Source »

Victoria certainly would not have approved of her ebullient great-great-granddaughter's high kicks-but then Margaret has always shown herself to be more a child of Victoria's son Edward VII, an habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: H.R.H. Fifi | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

This fragment was presented to us be an ancient oriental, an habitue of the ovals, so to speak, who claims descent from Confucius, and who has shown remarkable prowess of late at Lincoin Downs. We quote in part:

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

This fragment was presented to us by an ancient Oriental, an habitue of the ovals, so to speak, who claims descent from Confucius, and who has shown remarkable prowess of late at Lincoln Downs. We quote in part:

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

"The Invaders," by Peter Gray, is reminiscent of the lead story in the last issue. Both are tales of neurotic young men hounded by fear. While the first attempt was confused and shadowy, the new story, dealing with three murky characters who hound a Greenwich Village habitue back to his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 4/30/1947 | See Source »

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