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In East Hampton, L.I., the twelve-passenger, 40-ft. gondola, once a dazzling black and gold, in which Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were poled around Venice in the 1850s, would be fixed up to glide again.† Willed to the village library by the. late Miss Alice Moran (her...
"Americans," Franz Lehar once complained, "know me only as the creator of The Merry Widow"
But how well they knew The Merry Widow! In 1907, the Widow's gay Viennese charm had captured Broadway. Merry Widow waltzes and Merry Widow hats swept the U.S. And the U.S. has pretty well stayed swept ever since.
High Vs. Autumn was also the time for county fairs-for merry-go-round music, spun sugar, and the sight of prize cakes, prize cattle and sullen hootchy-cootchy dancers. Millions of men were digging out red hats, boots and boxes of shells and exchanging speculative glances with suddenly excited...
When the Australian cricket team visited Balmoral Castle and asked if they could take some snapshots of their royal hosts, King George VI said sure, "but you'll have to take some of your own medicine. I am a photographer, too." After a merry clicking of shutters from all...