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Orson-Welles, no mean prestidigitator in his own right, relishes every minute of Cagliostro's swashbuckling career. Rolling his eyes like an end man in an oldtime minstrel show, he charms crippled aristocrats right off their crutches, ogles a beautiful blonde into marriage against her will, beetles and bluffs his way into the court of King Louis XV, then meets his death in a prancing duel atop a tower high above Paris, with Marie Antoinette at his side...
...fistfull of fillers start the program. They vary in merit, but "Mauve and Burgundy" from "The Safe Crackers," Jim Perrin's able singing of "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" and "A Wandering Minstrel I," and the Trio, "If you go in," from "Iolanthe," make it worthwhile to arrive tonight for the first half of the fare...
Just Follow the Crowd. Among Negro intellectuals, the Zulus and all their doings are considered offensive vestiges of the minstrel-show, Sambo-type Negro. To Armstrong such touchiness seems absurd, and no one who knows easygoing, nonintellectual Louis will doubt his sincerity. To Jazz King Armstrong, lording it over the Zulu Parade (a broad, dark satire on the expensive white goings-on in another part of town) will be the sentimental culmination of his spectacular career, and a bang-up good time besides...
...airport in his bullet-proof Daimler. He flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father's sword he has girded on, and his wild harp slung behind...
...Lonely Heart. In Windsor, Vt., Prisoner Harry Priest asked the warden please to delay his forthcoming release two weeks: he wanted to appear in the prison minstrel show. In Stanton, Mich., Parole Violator Harold I. Davis, a fugitive, came back to jail from Texas, explained: "It's better to be in jail where they know you and want you than at liberty in a gay city where they...