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...underworld ten years ago and was martyred by a jail sentence for insisting on the journalistic principle of refusing to reveal his sources of information. For all who remember this stirring episode in American newspaper history, "Missing Girls," featuring inimitable performances by such Hollywood notables as Roger Pryor, and Muriel Evans, is a must...
Next day, Mrs. Muriel Bachant had triplets, all girls. Weights: 6 lb. 3 oz., 6 lb. 7 oz., 4 lb. 8 oz. All doing well...
...lightweight by operatic standards, is attractive for Broadway. (To preserve voices and play the roles on alternate nights, there are two Carmens, two Joes, two Cindy Lous.) The acting is remarkably ingratiating for performers who were dug up from nowhere and tossed upon a stage. One of the Carmens (Muriel Smith) used to clean film in Philadelphia, while the six-foot-five Husky Miller twirled a nightstick in Manhattan...
...competently handled, but neither draw the attention that Carlotta Franzell attracts as Cindy Lou. Her clear soprano was applauded almost as vigorously as if she had been the lead at the Met. Luther Saxon, as Joe, plays the victim of Carmen's seductive charm with convincing sincerity, but Muriel Smith's singing falls definitely short of excellence...
...asbestos heiress (sister of Playboy Tommy Manville), gave a sort of farewell luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton for friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless Tuesday...