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Died. Carl Ritter, 83, urbane hotelman-host to six decades of European kings and U.S. millionaires; in his plush Park Hotel at Homburg, Germany. Proud owner of the world's most fashionable hideaway from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter...
...seven years with Ringling Bros., White has lightened and heightened the whole atmosphere of the circus from plush tones to brilliant pastels. "Dress the acrobats in blood-red velvet." he says, "and they look as if they'd crash from heaviness. But dress them in sequins, and they seem to fly." This year White used more sequins than ever before. Says he: "With aniline dyes you get color that vibrates, then you put sequins on top and you have the giddiest vibrations in the world. The shaking light makes more excitement; the whole thing has a juvenile quality...
When jaded appetite and flat wallet demand food that is at once exotic and inexpensive, the answer is Chinatown. From plush oriental trappings, reminiscent of a tong-war movie, to a chrome and linoleum decor, Chinese restaurants provide all setting for your meal. Prices are standard, staggered between $1.50 and two dollars, and the menus vary little between the different places...
England, as economists would have it, has for come years been merely a poor relation of the United States. Devaluation, rationing, a dollar shortage all seem to be well-established throughout the British Isles; from their plush arm-chairs, American observers are inclined to be a bit patronizing...
Composer Berezowsky, once a violinist with the Coolidge Quartet and now a staff musician at CBS, turned in an hour-long score of easy melodies and rather plush harmonies. When an elephant became perplexed, the violins and xylophone played good-humored glissandos. When a camel strode, the tuba booped in tempo. And when a song showed signs of becoming too sugary, its harmonies were spiced with dissonance. Berezowsky's best moments came in the circus scene, when he let him self go in razzle-dazzle imitations of a wind band...