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Pablo Picasso has written a play-in six short acts-about The Two Little Doggies (who make one big dog) and their friends Fat Anguish, Skinny Anguish, The Round End, The Big Foot, The Onion, The Tart (pastry), Silence and The Curtains. The cast is now looking for a home on Broadway for fall occupancy, but may have difficulty finding one. The play, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail), is concerned chiefly with food and sex. The Tart is onstage almost continually in nothing but a pair of stockings...
Tightening business conditions forced another concern to shut up shop last Thursday when The Eliot House Grill closed its door for the summer because of the dearth of patrons. Famous as the home of the best hamburger in the University the Grill failed to attract enough lovers of the onion covered delicacy to show a coupon profit...
Several Hollywood experts wanted the world to know who is responsible for all that glamor. For instance, when Ingrid Bergman first came to Hollywood, she had to use an onion to bring on the tears. With the help of the make-up men, she had learned to use a menthol inhaler. One technician recalled that he had successfully taped back one of Alan Ladd's ears (the other one is all right). Another had taped both of Frank Sinatra's ears to minimize his "handle-cup appearance...
Barron Beshoar called on a Denver businessman to get his views on the international situation. The man gave him a long look, hrrmphed, reached toward the floor beside his desk and came up with a huge Spanish onion. "Here," he said, "have one." That ended the interview. If any symbolism was intended, Beshoar has not figured...
...Eastern Front, the Germans had been devastatingly thorough. The old, walled Polish city of Cracow remained, in a sea of flattened middle-European towns. Kiev went the way of Warsaw, and with it the onion-domed Pechersk Lavra (cave monastery) which was the first fountainhead of Russian Christianity...