Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheherazade (Columbia) is a passionate performance of Maurice Ravel's coldly exciting music, with Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel sharing the enthusiasm built behind her by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Berlioz' Cléopátre, on the other side, is less remarkable music...
...virtually guaranteed to coin profits while they went fishing. Last week in Washington, the institute met again, and this time it was hard to hear a good word said for the business of coin-operated dry cleaning shops. In the two years between the two gatherings, the coin-op industry blossomed into a $120 million-a-year business with 7,300 shops across the U.S. But coin-ops have made more owners miserable than millionaires...
...business for beginners. The plumbers, insurancemen, and merchants who set up shops found that almost every fabric posed a different cleaning problem and that customers expected them to take out spots and stains just like the more expensive professionals, whose drycleaning process takes 14 separate steps. Coin-op cleaning proved to be better suited for such bulky items as blankets and draperies than for men's suits and outerwear. Fulltime attendants (often required by local laws) sent up labor costs. Electric bills were high, and machines frequently proved unreliable. Clothes often came out smelling like sulphur. Many began...
Little Extras. When coin-ops first started, the talk was that they would soon put professional drycleaners out of business. Something quite different is happening. To attract customers, the successful coin-ops have had to expand their operations into spotting, pressing and other services, thus are becoming somewhat professional themselves. Many professionals, having lost some business to the coin-ops, have turned to selling coin-op-type service as a sideline, for cleaning materials from around the house and old clothes that do not need pressing. The general feeling at last week's convention was that there...
Guest artist Victor Rosenbaum, one of the outstanding pianists of the younger generation, will perform the Mozart Sonata in E-Flat, K. 282; the Beethoven Sonata in E-Major, Op. 109; the Schubert Sonata in A-Minor, Op. 42; and the Webern Plane Variations, Op...