Word: mannerses
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On a stage reduced to one endless stretch of carpet-portions of which move up and down throughout-the inhabitants of this world stalk about in clothes ranging from a blood-red kimono to assorted feather boas and beaver caps. Their manners are peculiar, but their props and other accoutrements...
DIED. Joyce C. Hall, 91, founding father and president (1910-66) of Hallmark Cards, who cared enough to build the very best company of its kind; in Leawood, Kans. Hall's inspirations, "flavored with the vapor of past experience," created a business that now makes about 8 million cards...
Even Gertrude Lawrence, one of his greatest friends and favorite acting partners during the '20s and '30s, receives a small jab from the Coward scalpel. When she vacillates about accepting a part, he directs her husband "to tell Gertie to mind her manners and that if she wants...
Mozart's death has been variously ascribed to rheumatic fever, uremia and even murder by poisoning. Alexander Pushkin wrote a play that pinned the guilt on Mozart's musical rival Antonio Salieri, and Rimski-Korsakov turned the literary libel into a miniopera. Playwright Peter Shaffer recently gave the...
Members of the West Point community this week also criticized the Harvard Band's antics. Lt. Col. Ronald McCowen, director of the West Point band, said. "I'm afraid that there's a little thing called common sense, courtesy and manners which were forgotten [when the Band performed]. There are...