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...turn them down low enough, we can raise the prices." (Laughter.) Now he sits unnoticed in the back of the auditorium, watching a rehearsal. Then he leaps up, steps over some seats and halts a bevy of girl dancers onstage. "How about raising the hems above the knee? Hmm. Better check the knees first." (Titters.) Now he is off to one of the rehearsal rooms to tend to a soprano who is feeling neglected. "It's freezing in here," she shivers. (Singers hate air conditioning more than they hate other singers.) Ignoring the air-conditioning controls, Bing ceremoniously goes...
...best new inventions: the tent-topped, three-week-old Fountain Café in Central Park. Suddenly her friend was at her side. Why couldn't ther be deck chairs for hire? "People steal them," said the commissioner. Then how about miniature golf near Riverside Drive? "Hmm," said Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving, and in ten seconds he was sketching miniature-golf courses on a scrap of paper. "Sure," he said gaily. "It could work...
...baggage-claim room at the Boston terminal, Rubinstein perked an ear to the oozy wash of Muzak and began to shuffle across the floor with an imaginary partner. When a leggy young blonde entered, he shot an appraising eye at her. "Hmm, not bad," he murmured. "Shall I ask her to dance? No, she's too serious." And on he waltzed...
...that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color, only to belatedly discover that it "just wouldn't work." How about changing the locale to Hollywood, with the conflict between an actress and her understudy? "No," said New York City Opera Director Julius Rudel. Hmm. Why not just keep it straight Strindberg...
...Hmm," Biff thought, "I guess it's not a coffeehouse...