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Bootsie began her column in 1943 when her first husband, Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini, went off to war. But, said she, it "was a luxury from the beginning. Now I find it's a luxury that I can't afford." The Times-Herald had no trouble finding a suitable replacement. The new columnist: Maryland McCormick, 55, wife of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the Times-Herald (and Chicago Tribune) publisher. Maryland's new column started off this week on a subject on which both she and her predecessor are undisputed experts: publishers' wives. Says Mrs. McCormick, with...
Next night the Met gave its sixth performance (in two years) of the only contemporary composition in its repertory, Igor Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, which has cost the Met more than 60,000 hard-won dollars to mount. Reported Critic Olin Downes of the Times: "The opera suffered the worst fiasco that we have seen occur at the Metropolitan in 30 years of attendance there." Only a slim crowd turned up in the first place, and "by the end of the second act, people were leaving in scores ... It is clear that the public has tired...
...subject with which Zarubin has more than the average diplomat's experience. Georgi Zarubin was the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador to Canada when Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko fled the Russian embassy and, turning himself over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, laid bare the workings of the Soviet Union's atomic spy ring in Canada, Britain and the U.S. Soon after Gouzenko told his story, Ambassador Zarubin abruptly left the country; he never returned...
...with so many detours, or so many halts to let caravans go by. Nor is the score notably helpful. Some eerie things have happened to Russian Composer Borodin's brilliantly eerie music, and though one or two of the best-known bits (e.g., Stranger in Paradise) from Prince Igor are already jukebox favorites, much of Borodin's famed 19th century work has been made to sound pretty banal...
Baubles, Bangles and Beads (Lu Ann Simms; Columbia). A little number expressing innocent joy in jewelry, charmingly vocalized by Songstress Simms and bespangled with instrumental baubles. Originally composed by Borodin (Prince Igor), although he gets no label credit...