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Back home in Evanston, Ill. she is remembered as plain Gertrude McBrady, a glum girl in blonde braids. But in Paris' plush Maeght Gallery last week, she was redheaded, black-robed Mademoiselle O'Brady, the brilliant American artist...
Though no one in the red plush seats out front knew it, there was also hammering, hurrying and rehearsing going on all over the block-square Metropolitan Opera House. High above Valhalla, craning for an occasional amused glance at the tiny gods on stage below, painters swashed away at new scenery of an English fishing village. In rehearsal rooms, catacombed through the six-story building, singers agonized over the strange notes of a new score. On a rooftop stage, conductors and stage directors exhorted another cast fully as large and glamorous as the one before the audience...
...Salle Wagram, a marble and plush dance hall which also serves as a boxing arena, some 3,000 small shopkeepers, bakers, butchers and barbers, well-larded with party members, were assembled. Duclos, a plump parrot of a man, was on his best behavior, addressing them as "mesdames et messieurs," instead of "comrades." He shrewdly bracketed "Le Plan Marshall" with something his audience hated-"Le Plan Mayer," Finance Minister Rene Mayer's anti-inflation plan, which levies steep taxes on business and industry...
Thereupon bullet-headed Daikichi Ubukata, 67-year-old Democrat, rose solemnly from his blue plush seat, slowly wobbled over to a porcelain spittoon in one corner to execute a unique political comment. Ubukata was heard boasting in a bus next morning: "I am probably the only person in history who has ever relieved himself in the main hall of the Diet...
Playwright Sacha Guitry, the 62-year-old Noel Coward of Paris, took on a new chore for Luxembourg radio listeners, Guitry, and his sponsor. From Paris the much-married jack-of-all-theatrics would make small-talk in his plush, bedroomy voice for 15 minutes a week. The old heartthrob's sponsor: Scandale Corsets...