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Spiritual & Corporal. The three friars at the cemetery of Guadix are an experiment which may in a few years become a full-fledged new order: Los Hermanos Fosores de la Miserícordia. It began with two hermits, Hilarion and Bernardo, of the Order of Our Lady of the Desert, in their hermitage near Córdoba...
Conference. The marriage was something short of idyllic. At the village cafe, Jean was soon telling new friends that Pierre was a stingy old miser and Marie a homely, stupid wench whom he had only married in order to get her farm. Farmer Pierre shook his fist and swore that his son-in-law was a lazy good-for-nothing. "Someday," replied Jean, "I'm going to walk out on you, but before I go, I'm going to burn down your filthy farm...
...vocalists are quite uneven. Only Mildred Allen in the feminine lead and Bernard Barbeau as one of the misers is vocally satisfying. Miss Allen displays a light, flexible soprano in her numerous arias, Mr. Barbeau an agile yet powerful bass. Anthony Giarraputo's characterization of the other miser is consistently funny. Peter Elvin's caricature of the hero perhaps goes beyond his intentions at times. Elizabeth Kalkhurst is appealing as the shrewd maid...
...Minute Miser. In New York, Abercrombie & Fitch began sale of Auto-Graph, a watch for motorists that has dials to check speed runs over measured miles, record elapsed time on trips with corrections for time out, keep track of gasoline consumption, or count golf strokes. Price: $90, including...
...Paris, the Ago Khan said that he was still hard at work on his forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season of my life. In England alone...