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...Thief (TIME, May 1, 1939) is to be sung to beer and hot dogs at a Carnegie Hall pop concert. Next month, Menotti will sail for Europe to visit Milan, his home town, and do research in Paris for a ballet about Marcel Proust. He lives at Mt. Kisco, N.Y. in a glistening glass and wood house called "Capricorn," with Symphonist Samuel Barber, an aspiring poet named Robert Horan, and a female cocker spaniel. The cocker, Menotti says, "is very musical and neurotic like all of us in the house." The dog has a preference for the works of Ravel...
...supply. Last week another such town-wide test was announced: Pleasantville, N.Y. (pop. 4,357) home of The Reader's Digest, plans to try ultraviolet lamps in its three schools, seven churches and one movie to see if the rays will reduce colds, measles, mumps, etc. Nearby Mount Kisco, about the same size-and lampless-will compare notes with Pleasantville for the three years the experiment runs...
Titian to Kaufman. He and his wife Eleanor Holm have a 55-acre estate at Mt. Kisco, N.Y., a $200,000 town house containing fancy bathtubs, $500,000 worth of Titians, Rubens, Holbeins, Daumiers, Utrillos and El Grecos. The house is virtually his office, and a dressing gown his usual business suit. "Billy," commented a friend, "probably spends more time in his bedroom than any other well person." The house is also the scene of dinner parties which are "cast as carefully" as his shows and which star Baruch, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Cole Porter...
Engaged. David Rockefeller, 25, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and secretary to New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia; and Margaret McGrath of Mount Kisco...
Died. James Handasyd (pronounced han'-da-side) Perkins, 64, chairman of the board of the National City Bank of New York, chairman of the board of the City Bank Farmers Trust Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N. Y. In World War I Harvardman Perkins was awarded the American Distinguished Service Medal, officership in the Legion of Honor, a commandership in the Order of the Crown of Belgium...