Word: mignone
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...like him and still be labeled "cute." Last week M'Toto's former owner, swank, socialite Mrs. E. Kenneth Hoyt, traveled from her Havana estate to see M'Toto and supervise a light lunch of eggs, salad, cup custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed finger, tore Mrs. Hoyt's smart costume...
SPEAK NO EVIL-Mignon G. Eberhart-Random House ($2). Married to a rich drunkard, Elizabeth Dakin nearly hangs for his shooting in their Jamaica, B. W. I. villa. Two other men want her, two other women don't. Add a slobbering male secretary and you have a hot time at old Montego...
...Lucia, Rigoletto, Mignon, Barber of Seville, Linda di Chamounix, Somnambula, Coq d'Or, Tales of Hoffmann, Lakmé (her favorite...
...HANGMAN'S WHIP-Mignon G. Eberhart-Doubleday Doran ($2). Carefully plotted around the Abbott family-Aunt Ludmilla, who is being arsenicked; Cousin Search (a girl), and Diana. Principal crime: the hanging of a mean woman who won't divorce the man Search wants to marry. Motive: money...
...Chicago Civic Opera performance of Mignon, Tito Schipa, supposed to carry Gladys Swarthout off stage, let Désiré Defrère substitute in the job. Proxy Defrère stumbled, dropped her. Explained Slacker Schipa: "She is, you understand, a little heavy, I do not say she is fat, just a little heavy." Retorted Proxy Defrère, "I slipped on a tack. It was only natural I do the job. Schipa is too puny...