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...fancy mudslinging as U.S. politics had seen in many a day. Against Bill Bullitt stood an odd combination: the G.O.P. machine and Communists who still smarted from ex-Ambassador Bullitt's lack of tact toward the Soviet Union in 1933-36. For Barney Samuel stood many a plain Philadelphian who was just simply leary of Bill Bullitt's attitude of elegant distaste. But there was a series of below-the-belt assaults on both candidates' patriotism, ancestry and personal morals. From unidentified quarters Bullitt was pictured as 1) Jewish, 2) anti-Jewish, 3) pro-Nazi, 4) antilabor...
...loud Philadelphian applause testified that it was all perfectly natural. The opera, old Vienna's "grand operetta" Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Waltz King Johann Strauss, furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...Philadelphia society girl to a career of painting on the Paris boulevards of the 1870s has always been shrouded in a cloud of Victorian propriety. Against the wishes of her banker father, who roared that he would almost rather see her dead than a painter, prim, self-willed Philadelphian Cassatt sailed off to Europe alone at the age of 23, remained there, except for a trip or two, until her death in 1926. Impatient with the conservative French academies where other U.S. students complacently copied the traditions of classicists like David and Ingres, she settled down, with a patient Yankee...
...beefy, full-bellied, roundheaded Philadelphian, Lawyer Johnson once earned a $50,000 fee for scrawling the word "No" across the front of a bulky, corporate financing plan. He became absorbed in art collecting back in the 1880s. Leaving the more expensive masterpieces to his friend, the late Multimillionaire Peter A. B. Widener, Johnson concentrated on completeness and comprehensiveness. In a massive, Edwardian mansion on South Broad Street, Collector Johnson plastered walls from floor to ceiling with gilt-framed masterpieces. Finally strapped for space, he had to hang his canvases in bathrooms and inside closet doors. He even hung some...
Macbetto was Baritone Jess Walters, a 32-year-old Brooklynite of modest stature but big voice. Philadelphian Florence Kirk, 27, as his indomitable Lady, prowled and strode upstage & down, drove her soprano hard, managed by sheer intensity to make Via, ti dico, o maledetta! sound as if it really were Out, damned spot...