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...Boston's plush-and-gilt Opera House was rocked to its venerable foundations Monday night as Les Ballets de Paris moved in with a frenzied melange of ballet, can-can, burlesque, and aerobatics. Out of the resulting excitement emerges some of the best entertainment this city has seen in a long time...
...Modern Language Center's exterior offers no hints of its plush indoor facilities. The main floor includes a splendid dining room, a club meeting room (the library of Professor Cannon's home), Mrs. Leggewie's office, a kitchen, and a pantry. Several pieces of fine old furniture, as well as some rare books, have been donated by a Mrs. Potter, a wealthy Boston widow. Other donations come from members of the faculty and language club funds. The University takes no part in financing the Center...
...Francisco's gold and red plush opera house, onetime Child Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 33, observed the 25th anniversary of his debut as a violinist with a program of sonatas by Tartini, Bach and Beethoven. Of the concert he said: "I just go on pounding away; you could say I've passed the millionth note...
...plush Hong Kong Hotel, British ladies & gentlemen in dinner jackets and evening gowns dance nightly to the strains of Strauss and U.S. jazz. But, said a colonial Colonel Blimp: "Before the war it was different. Now your No. 1 boy might be sitting next to you in the reserved section of one of Hong Kong's best theaters...
...Manhattan's Statler Hotel, he beamed handsomely at the biggest crowds the nitery had ever seen, contentedly mooed the season's ballads in a domesticated baritone. Behind him were 23 dapper and earnest young men, a quintet of well-groomed young women carefully schooled to furnish a plush vocal cushion for what has been called everything from "The Voice with Hair on its Chest" to the "Million-Dollar Monotone." The Jeanette (Pa.) High School boy-most-likely-to-succeed (Class of '29) was definitely a success...