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With a smile on his face, some new scores in his trunk and a number of signed contracts in his pocket, Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera returned to Manhattan last fortnight from a two-month jaunt around Europe. Briskly he began to tell of plans for this winter's 14-week season in the nation's last remaining permanent opera company. There will be no reduction in box-office prices ($8 top). There will be fewer star performers singing at the Metropolitan...
...choice among five of the 250 automobiles registered with Vatican City plates (SCV).* He owns a Dodge, a Citroën, a Fiat, a Mercedes, an Isotta-Fraschini, all gifts from pious admirers. If the Pope picks his favorite car this week for the 17-mile jaunt to the hills, he will clamber into the Dodge sedan, in which the back seat has been replaced with a large chair, slightly raised and overstuffed under red damask. In front of this is a small folding seat for the Pope's secretary. According to Papal Chauffeur Angelo Stoppa: "His Holiness likes...
Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar, two mildly adventurous Manhattan schoolteachers on a holiday jaunt to Mexico City, counted themselves very lucky last week when, hardly out of New York harbor on the 5.5. Oriente bound for Havana, they fell in with a voluble group of Manhattan intellectuals. Leader of their new friends was Clifford Odets, able young left-wing author of three (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) of the twelve plays now running on Broadway. Among Odets' 14 companions were a Brooklyn Congregational minister, two Negroes, a correspondent for The Nation, a national...
...release for the last two years. Twentieth Century will function much as it has in the past. With a better score of hits than any other comparable organization in the industry, its autumn schedule. to attend to which Producer Zanuck was last week returning from a bear-hunting jaunt in Alaska, includes Ivanhoe, Sing Governor, Sing, The Diamond Horseshoe...
With Bill Lincoln twirling his way to two victories, and winning one of them by his own bingle in the ninth, the Harvard nine returned yesterday from its spring jaunt to the southlands with three wins, a tie, and a loss on the books...