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...young mistress' are meticulously cared for by assorted Venetian factotums, all of whom are really friends. When the colonel slips an extra bill to a young second waiter, the tip is reproachfully returned-an event about as plausible as the Grand Canal turning to Valpolicella. John O'Hara, a Hemingway disciple but less sentimental, is not so much concerned with friendship between servant and master as with correctness; his elderly club members know that it is as gauche to overtip as to undertip, and they seem to get away with shiny half-dollars that would be flung into...
ORPHEUM: Gone With the Wind is back; and Clark Gable's and Vivien Leigh's mighty saga of the Ole South is now to be seen at popular prices. A Civil War Centennial-Scarlett O'Hara extravaganza spectacular. Evenings...
...tell and a gallery of splendid theatrical caricatures to display. Gable never in later movies topped his performance as Rhett Butler, the man of iron with a heart of caramel. Vivien Leigh, though she seldom shows the tigerish vitality that Author Mitchell wrote into her Scarlett O'Hara, nevertheless makes a fascinating, green-eyed bitch-kitty. And Hattie McDaniel, as Scarlett's hammy old mammy, just about waddles off with the show...
...dress are available; man's achievements can be signaled only by the fascinating game of displaying "status symbols." Hence the endless American preoccupation with what is "in" and what is "out"?clothes, addresses, speech, schools, cars. The phenomenon (well understood by U.S. novelists, most notably John O'Hara) tends to force Americans into infinite patterns of snobbery and reverse snobbery. The first step after success is to display wealth; the second step is to learn that flashy display is wrong; the third step is to learn that, if one is really "secure," one can afford even to be flashy...
According to Means. A prime example is Philadelphia, where in 1952 the late Cardinal O'Hara, a stern foe of federal aid, launched a building campaign that gave Catholics enough schools to handle about 85% of their children (which is 39% of all Philadelphia's children). The schools charge no tuition, but collect money according to means. Poor parishioners with many children may give nothing at all. For building loans. O'Hara set up an archdiocesan "central bank.'' Rich parishes put up the cash at going interest rates; poor ones borrow it. with archdiocesan help...