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...deficit) into a thriving academy that picks & chooses its lucky girls. Stephens has had such attractions as 75-year-old Maude (Peter Pan) Adams as a dramatics teacher. Talent scouts-who are called "admissions counselors"-give prospects the onceover, report (among other things) on their "comeliness" and home-town popularity. Stephens prefers not to waste its makeup, clothing and budget clinics, its courses in nutrition and home management, on the hopelessly homely or the misfits...
What with a home-town World Series for the first time in a quarter-century, New England's attention for the next week will be focussed on box scores and line totals. But, once the gloves are oiled for the last time and the goal posts go up in Fenway Park, Massachusetts can devote itself to the biennial autumnal pastime: Politics...
Some, especially businessmen, teachers, students, and returning servicemen, head for a quiet reading room on the mezzanine where bound and indexed volumes of all our magazines are available. Others write letters, read their home-town newspapers (of which we maintain a representative supply), examine the art and photographic displays, watch the latest issues of MARCH OF TIME cinema via movieola. This land-office business also involves giving information-from what Broadway show is really worth seeing to how to raise Muscovy ducks...
...first home-town performance in six years, Soprano Sayao chose Debussy's ethereal opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, which she considers her best job at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. (Said she: "I don't know how Brazilian audience will receive this thing. They just begin to understand Wagner and Debussy maybe.") Her suspicions were right...
...Dedicated to My Fiancee (see cut) was once almost rejected by the Parisian Salon des Independants (which supposedly takes anything) as pornographic art. The home-town girl named Bella, to whom the painting was dedicated, saw nothing shocking about it. As his wife, she later appeared in Double Portrait...