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...clearly the occasion, and not the play - Ibsen's Peer Gynt - that made tickets scarcer than hen's eggs and fetched everybody from Noel Coward in specs to G.I. William Saroyan. But Lady Colefax's typical suspiration, "If one's friends will put on Peer Gynt, one must see it," changed to enthusiasm as Ibsen's murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With...
...ingredient will still be missing in the WPB cocktail: bourbon. By far the most popular U.S. whiskey (70% of all sold in prewar years), bourbon is scarce now, will be still scarcer because it is made from corn, now in the shortest supply of all U.S. grains. WPB-and the War Food Administration-banned the use of corn for distilling during the holiday. But they assured distillers of an adequate supply of wheat and rye. Distillers expect to turn out about 25,000,000 gallons of 190-proof neutral spirits and whiskey, enough, with blending, to add a four-month...
...last three years black pepper has become scarcer and scarcer; many housewives have difficulty in getting any pepper. The Government acted to force the pepper dealers to release their stocks. The dealers balked: the OPA ceiling price is 6½ a Ib., which they claimed would by no means repay them for the high costs of their foresight-insurance, interest, storage charges in warehouses. To make a small profit they need a ceiling price of at least 10? a Ib. (In London the ceiling price is about...
...newsmen, the cream of the international press corps, waited for news, soon discovered they would get none at all. Britain's redheaded Minister of Information, Brendan Bracken, held a press conference to console them, described Roosevelt, Churchill and King as "the three oysters." Said he:-"News is scarcer than water in the Sahara...
Pilots in low-flying A36 fighter-bombers, Lightnings, Warhawks and Spitfires sweated in the Mediterranean heat, ranging the dusty roads for troop convoys, tanks and artillery. Soon it seemed to them that they could find only the ruins of earlier attacks. ("Targets are becoming scarcer by the hour.") But there would be "targets of opportunity" until the last Axis force had surrendered...