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...thing, no one ever accused the Met of being progressive. General Manager Edward Johnson works on the theory that his customers like what they have been given, because they come back for more. Season-ticket holders buy out 85% of the house in advance, and take potluck. More than half of them have held seats for ten years; 10% of them for 40 years. Says Johnson: "Why should we force a new venture when we can sell out the house with Rigoletto?" And, unlike Broadway theaters which can play a hit nightly until it pays off, the Met plays each...
...through her kitchen. In Cincinnati, Elmo Skinner's petition for a divorce complained that his wife was in Loglick, Ky., where "she has acquired a hog and 40 chickens. The world food situation being what it is, she prefers to remain ... in preference to returning to ... the potluck which city life offers." In Los Angeles, John Wilson, who said his wife walked out on him two hours after the wedding, finally got around to suing for divorce, 47 years after her walkout...
...LaRue is the fashionable place to dine. Every evening some 280 fortunate film colonists jam the pistachio-&cocoa-striped booths, patiently wait their turn in the ebony-&-red-leather bar, or crowd the overflow tables on the flower-boxed French terrace. Every evening hundreds of disappointed latecomers must take potluck elsewhere...
Election day is far off. Not even the Hot-Stove League at Chubb's Corners has begun to determine the country's next political potluck. Yet this man doggedly continues his long-range prophesy...