Word: savoyism
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Hollis--"The Gondoliers"--a Savoy Opera seldom given in America, and musically perhaps the best of the series. A good performance which fails only a little in delicacy of touch...
...better-known Savoy Operas, the Civic Light Opera Company has learned to be lusty in choruses, whimsical in patter-songs, and sentimental in arias. They can shake the deck of the good ship "Pinafore," snapping their fingers at a foeman's taunts, along with their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. Or, transformed into Pirates, they can sally forth to seek their prey and help themselves in a royal way. But as Gondolieri, whose life is "loving and laughing and quipping and quaffing," they miss the right note of delicate gayety. They sing "Buon' giorno, signorine!" like the police...
...Harlem's Savoy Dancehall for black men and women, a white man with a thinker's head and closecropped grey hair, last week spun his partner away, came walking toward her, flattened palms forward in the gesture of pushing as his shoulders twitched in the dance called the Lindy Hop. It was Architect Fuller, fifth generation in a line of Harvard men, onetime class drunkard, twice expelled from Harvard, greatnephew of Emerson's friend Margaret Fuller, Wartime U. S. Navy lieutenant, engineer, a prophet of civilization...
...Greatly daring, the English Folk Cookery Association invited French Ambassador Aimé de Fleuriau to their "May Dinner" at Simpson's-in-the-Strand (a studiously English restaurant directed by Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith who also directs numerous de luxe London hotels including Claridge's and the Savoy...
Died. Alexandre Gastaud, 63, chef and director of kitchens of .the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; of heart disease; in Manhattan. From the ship's galley, to a Bordeaux Inn, to the great kitchen school of Escoffier in Monte Carlo's Grand Hotel, he rose to officiate at London's Savoy and Carlton Hotels, Paris' Ritz and for royalty. Best known Gastaud dish on the Waldorf menu: "The Black Pot," a highly seasoned bean stew...