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Another problem, according to Thornton, is the unwillingness of advertisers to sponsor long programs. "There's nothing I would rather do than have longer programs. Suppose we play Beethoven's Seventh and the Leonora Overture. Together they last about an hour; but that leaves room for only one spot commercial, between the two works. We can't put spots between movements; it's not fair to the listener." The result has been an increase in 15-minute programs, with short pieces and a spot between each one. This policy is doubly attractive to prospective advertisers, who would rather sponsor semi...
...books sparkle but lack proportion; his children, left to grow wild like unclipped weeds, are something like his books. There is Frances, an intense, mixed-up young girl; Louis, who flirts with Fascism out of boredom and an ignorance of life that parades as cynicism. Even four-year-old Leonora is spoiled...
With her old self-confidence, she mastered four new Italian roles, broadened her acting ("You do things here New York would consider a little corny"), opened as Leonora in Il Trovatore. At the end of her big first act aria, the audience went wild. Next day, Astrid found herself the talk of the town...
...When a woman meets a beautiful dress," observed Broadway's Leonora Corbett, "she always has to ask herself two questions: Can I afford it? Is it worth it? This year there's a third: Are they trying to make a fool...
...Leonora Carrington struggled back over that precipice and still struggles to paint the visions that haunted her private void. Except for those visions, her present life is a model of domesticity. She lives with her two children and second husband (a news photographer) in an out-of-the-way house in Mexico City, strolling out once a day for the mail, and painting at night...