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Most of the 6,500 registered guests were affluent, to say the least, and 75% of them came with their wives: prime targets for the jewel thieves who prowl the better hotels. Security had to be beefed up; in addition to the Hilton's regular complement of 70 guards, the A.T.A. provided 35 officers. The New York police department detached some plainclothesmen and mounted patrolmen to monitor the portals. This was something of a departure for the N.Y.P.D., but the convention after all was expected to unload $3 million a day on the city. Hilton Chief Barren Hilton himself...
Veronica Lewis's accused witch Jennet Jourdemayne appropriately sparkles like a jewel, lighting up her surroundings with painted cheeks and wild eyes, desparate, martyred gesticulations, and bright brocaded cape and gown. Her entrance in the first act rescues it from tedium, and in subsequent scenes Lewis outclasses the other players in dramatic ability and depth of character. Only in the last act does she fail to hold her own, lapsing into moon-eyed fatuousness at Jeffrey Harper's words of love...
...shortage of turkeys, because Americans now eat the bird year round to escape the high price of beef, but supplies proved plentiful, although prices were as high as 950 per lb., an average increase of 45% over last Thanksgiving. There was no drop in sales. "After all," said a Jewel food stores official in Chicago, "what's Thanksgiving without a turkey?" At Camp David, where the Carters were celebrating with a swirl of Georgia relatives from both sides of the family, a 36-lb. turkey named Purdue Pete was flown in from Indiana in a black and gold cage...
DIED. Izetta Jewel Miller, 94, former actress and early feminist who twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, from West Virginia, in the early 1920s; in La Jolla, Calif. Active in the women's movement before World War I, Miller reigned as the leading lady of Washington, D.C., theater and was President Woodrow Wilson's favorite actress...
...chamber music is not by nature a crowd pleaser. It is an aristocratic, rather austere music that disdains the flashier effects of symphonies and operas. Its beauty lies in its miniature, jewel-like detail and an almost translucent texture that is best appreciated in smaller concert halls. But its simple air is deceptive: chamber music is murderously difficult to play well. If a performer is too flamboyant, he upends the others. If one violin is off pitch, all instruments sour. Each line is naked, each player dependent on the others to "breathe" together, in order to get the right pitch...