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...interrupting) "Yes, I know. It was all my fault. You remind me of it often enough. It's my fault that we're here now instead of in the Garden of Eden. But ... it hasn't been so bad, has it, Adam? We've had some happiness, haven...
...costuming is deserving of mention. The lavish gowns of the "feminine" leads remind one of Schiaparelli's best. It is surprising how mere draping can lend a seductive enchantment to a mere male form. The show, as a whole, is an embryonic Rodgers and Hart production...
...born as to be nameless, Aretino took his name from his town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi...
...business, C-P-P and Lever Bros. doing about 20% apiece - 200-odd soapmakers scrapping for the rest. Chief competitive weapon: advertising, for which the soapmakers' bill was a cool $40,000,000 last year. It cost C-P-P alone a good $8,000,000 to remind its Palmolive Soap buyers to "Keep That Schoolgirl Complexion," buy its 432 additional toilet items. Of that sum over two-thirds went into radio: Gang Busters, Myrt & Marge, Dale Carnegie...
Broadcaster Dryfoos operates on regular schedule, blows a police whistle to remind his audience of starting time. Over the dormitory air he conducts morning and evening news programs (H. Dryfoos, commentator), a local Pot o' Gold program (prize: 50?), sometimes polls his audience with: "the first six guys in my room get free chocolate malteds." He also invites faculty guest speakers, fills in with programs of popular records. Under the magisterial eye of Dartmouth President Ernest H. Hopkins, Broadcaster Dryfoos has to avoid records like Bruz Fletcher's Nympho-Dipso-Ego-Maniac...