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...original motto of Scotland's Order of the Thistle is: Nemo me impune lacessit (No man provokes me with impunity). Rough translation of Reader Henderson's paraphrase: "No one may milk me without paying the piper...
...clarinet in hand. Taking his time, he eventually reached a stool in a downstage corner. He tootled a few warm-up phrases; then the orchestra in the pit joined in a discreet background from Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra. Thereafter, Jerome Robbins' Pied Piper kept its happy air of the impromptu, but it was scarcely relaxed...
...girl in rehearsal clothes came on next, and approached the "Piper" with wide-eyed caution. He soon had them both in a trance. At a sudden flurry of notes, they staggered away, responding to every spasm of the music like so many puppets on strings...
Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith arrived in Reno for the usual reason. Her marriage to second husband Joseph Piper Jones had been "a noble experiment that failed." Said she: "It was wartime, and one of those three-day-pass situations." The charge would be incompatibility, not cruelty, "because he's a nice guy. We simply didn't have anything to talk about...
Caston won Denver like a Pied Piper-by winning its youngsters. At his first children's concert, when rowdy kids hooted, hollered and whistled, Caston had his musicians hoot back. He has lured Denver adults-at-large into the tent with special family concerts: the whole family goes in "under, one umbrella" for $1.20. Last season the umbrella worked so well that extra seats had to be installed. For the mink-and-Cadillac set, Caston made the opening concert of the season and the annual fund-raising ball two of the big social events of the Denver season...