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Last week's show proved that the breed, by now almost pure filet mignon, is still improving. This year's Mercer and 1900's Advance were both Aberdeen-Angus. But Mercer, only 22 months old to Advance's 26, was shorter-legged, closer to the ground, more nearly a perfect elongated cube, typified the ideal animal that breeders, packers and consumers have been dreaming toward. Weighing 300 Ib.less than Advance, Mercer was a far more economical animal, because he provided cuts to fit the shrinking U. S. oven yet allowed no wastage, achieved maturity in materially...
HASTY WEDDING-Mignon G. Eberhart -Doubleday, Doran ($2). The marriage of a Chicago heiress, coming after the murder of her ex-suitor, arouses the suspicions of Detective Jacob Wait. Good characterizations, a sustained atmosphere of horror; one of the best mysteries to come out of Author Eberhart's typewriter...
...Procession of the Sardar from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippelitov-Ivanov *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" Debussy *Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1 Grieg Morning Mood-Anitra's Dance-In the Hall of the Troll King *Londonderry Air Arranged by Sir Hamilton Harty *Finale (Allegro con fuoco), Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky *The Chocolate Soldier, Selection Oscar Strauss *The Old Refrain Kreisler *March, "Indigo" from "1001 Nights" Johann Strauss *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Musle Store, Harvard Square...
...twittering bird notes to a feathered crony named Ewyscray, venturing Gallic asides to Press-agent Jack Oakie. Before the ensuing complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor, on Je suis Titania from Mignon, on two less classical numbers entitled Let's Give Love Another Chance and (as Miss Pons says) 'Itting...
...slipped back into that quiet, inconspicuous pattern after an occasion of delightfully uncomfortable prominence. Prominent Publisher Stern had given a great banquet with no one else than his modest adman as guest of honor. The other guests were 260 local morticians. The menu on which they dined included filet mignon, four varieties of wine, champagne, liqueurs. Fussed and entirely too nervous to eat, Adman Burns bobbed around at the testimonial dinner while Boss Stern told undertakers: "You have made Philadelphia a better place to live in, and a better place to pass...