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Your article . . . reminded me of something Alex Bernal said when, as an eight-year-old neighbor, he helped pick the fruit in our yard. Forbidden to climb the trees, Alex had been struggling for hours with a long-handled rake .to get three persimmons hanging out of reach. Finally he said, "Mrs. Mackey, why couldn't you climb this tree...
...scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look as if people really had lived in them. The direction (by skilled Oldtimer William K. Howard), the acting, the production are fluent, alert and reciprocal...
...year after General Marshall had become Chief of Staff, Terry Allen received his first star. Over the head of many a colonel who had rated him a rather dumb and charming rake, he was jumped from lieutenant colonel to temporary brigadier general...
...have as much fun as you used to when holes were shorter, golf was simpler, and you didn't live a subterranean existence in sand traps. And now you've got to give it all up because there are no men to rake out your footprints, or run the power mowers, or patch the elaborate tees, or manicure the target greens; and no gasoline for the machines if the men were available. . . . Silly...
Cost of a Manhattan recital, complete with trimmings, is between $700 and $1,200, less the generally negligible box-office take. For this figure a recitalist gets a piano, publicity, tickets, an accompanist (if he needs one), and the services (at a 20% rake-off) of an established musical manager, and a first-class hall. (Carnegie, on the Philharmonic's off nights, rents for $400; Town Hall, a few blocks downtown, for $300; smaller auditoriums at $75 a night & up.) The manager, if he is a good one. has already booked halls for the most desirable dates...