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...went to the Jewish School on Anton Pan Street. She was good in her studies and loved poetry. She had few friends; one of them was a girl named Mitzi, who loved cream puffs. One night Mitzi took Ana to a pastry shop with her. Ana stared at the cream puffs. "They look like squashed beetles," she said. Ana's impact on others was strong even then; the aftertaste of the simile made Mitzi give up cream puffs for years...
...aluminum figures were somewhat abstracted, but they were also undeniably naked (see cut). Entitled The Lovers, they had won a prize for a pretty, brunette-banged sculptor named Mitzi Solomon (who manfully objects to being called a "sculptress...
...Artists, which had given her the prize, got ready to exhibit The Lovers in Manhattan's stuffy National Academy of Design. But after an Academy member huffed that it was "not a good moral influence," the 150-lb. Lovers was quietly removed from the show last week. Cried Mitzi: "A vulgar reason!" She had tried, she said, merely to convey the idea of a man and woman holding hands...
Franz Josef's Command. Jeritza, a Moravian, was born Mitzi Jedlicka, a name she glamorized after she became a Viennese prima donna. Emperor Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca...
...show offers a good many consolation prizes. Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!, Bloomer Girl) is engaging as the hard little heel, besides dancing her nimble feet off. Mitzi Green (Babes in Arms) plays the part and catches the color of a Texas Guinan. There is a wonderful takeoff of a big Ziegfeldish production number in which showgirls appear as bright-plumaged birds. There is a funny ballad in which a gangster reminisces about his rubbed-out pals. Most of Jerome Robbins' dances are lively and amusing; some of Morton Gould's tunes are witty, if not very tuneful...