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From Manhattan, Actress Ella Raines angrily wired Hollywood cops to recover a set of patio chairs she said had been pinched by Actress Miriam Hopkins. Miss Hopkins promptly obliged with a calmer version of the story: "I borrowed the patio furniture for a party, and I was just being real neighborly, you know, like swapping rice pudding or something . . . She said some vicious things about me, but I don't want to say anything about Ella. She's a sweet little girl and I can't understand it ... I've never laughed more...
Debussy: Le Martyre de St.-Sébastién (Frances Yeend, soprano; Miriam Stewart, soprano; Anna Kaskas, contralto; Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, Victor Alessandro conducting; Allegro, 2 sides LP). Composed to a "mystery" of D'Annunzio for Dancer Ida Rubinstein, Le Martyre (1911) was itself martyred in an unsuccessful play, is rarely performed. It contains many a strange and beautiful bar, stands pretty well on its own in this first recording. Performance and recording: good...
...lands in her circle of snobs, he cannot bring himself to break the news that his mother slings hash in a Jersey City hamburger joint. He stays tongue-tied when Bride Tierney hires Mother Ritter as the family cook, keeps his secret even after his uppity mother-in-law (Miriam Hopkins) moves in and starts loading his mother with chores...
...nearby hut, Miriam Awat, a Yemenite girl, spoke up for her giggling girl friends, all clad in Mother Hubbards, long tight Arab pants, and beaded headdresses fashioned like a crusader's mailed hood...
...Miriam and Rachel do not compare notes; they have no common language. In a deep sense they never will have, but their children pick poppies together. The miracle is in the children, say Israel officials, who have seen the worlds represented by Miriam and Rachel blended in the children of the collective farms...