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Last week along the Avenida de Mayo, Corrientes and the Diagonal Norte, comfortably overcoated crowds pushed toward late and heavy dinners, late and lusty shows. At La Cabana patrons sampled luscious baby beef, brought sizzling on little grills to their tables. Other restaurants featured other delicacies. Business was good; the best people were satisfied with the direction things were taking. If others in Argentina disagreed, they had no effective way of saying...
...Luscious Columnist Lucius Beebe looked at wartime Manhattan, discovered that "society . . . has vanished in the face of a curious order called second lieutenants on whom gentle birth is bestowed by act of Congress...
Cabin In The Sky (M.G.M.) is an all-star Negro musical with handsome, luscious-voiced Lena Home (TIME, Jan. 4), Ethel Waters, "Rochester," Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Hall Johnson's singers. Like many star-filled pictures, this one never really shows off its crowded heavens. The Negroes are apparently regarded less as artists (despite their very high potential of artistry) than as picturesque, Sambo-style entertainers...
...invitation of Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, he took his London Philharmonic to Germany, also conducted the Berlin Opera. Feted by leading Nazis, he met Adolf Hitler, who assured him that his favorite opera was not Die Meistersinger (as always reported by Nazi propagandists) but Franz Lehar's luscious, low-brow Merry Widow. Sir Thomas invited Hitler to visit him in England. "He said," remarked Sir Thomas later, ''that he was afraid it might put too much strain on our police force. . . . Naturally, I made no comment on that...
...version of the Arabian Nights. The scenery is in Arizona, not Arabia, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba are comics, and the story revolves around a dispute between two brothers as to who shall buy Caliph. Whatever liberties Hollywood has taken with the original are more than justified by luscious harem scenes and Maria Montez in technicolor. As a movie it is worth one, but as entertainment at least...