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Liebman, 52, says he knows that a scene is good when it gives him "a tingle up and down my spine . . . The tingle is created by some element of beauty." But there is a drawback: "I'm very sentimental, and sometimes I get the tingle from schmalz." Occasionally, the tingle is replaced by a cringe. Says Liebman: "I cringe at bad taste, at inept jokes, at sloppiness or any lack of fastidiousness." This season Liebman cringed during rehearsals of his swing production of Pinafore "because it was too bop. We had the contemporary beat but we had lost Gilbert...
...show promoter, tossed a $15,000 circus costume party at Giro's nightclub in Hollywood, one of her 200 guests, who had wowed the gala by coming as himself in lace cuffs, squired Hostess Henie to another nightspot. There Sonja posed cozily, cheek to cheek, with her escort, Schmalz Pianist Liberace, still himself in the exotic resplendence of a nubbed-silk dinner jacket and polka-dot shirt...
...where Gourmet Bemelmans used to cook his literary schnitzel only with the finest schmalz, some of Father, Dear Father would make even Charles Dickens clutch his stomach and turn pale (e.g., "I wonder," says Barbara, "if Christ came to earth, could he get a table at Twenty-One?"). Moreover, Poppy's critical eye, which was always whimsically weak, is now rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants...
Point of View. In Milwaukee, on trial for drunken driving, Anton Schmalz, 62, admitted that he had been drinking Martinis "by the teacupful," but denied that he was drunk when arrested, explained that he had been forced to zigzag his car down the street "to dodge all the drunken drivers" coming at him from the opposite direction...
Schumann: Carnaval (Claudio Arrau, piano; Decca-Parlaphone, 2 sides LP). Chilean-born Pianist Arrau won his first U.S. fame with this romantic piece. Playing cleanly, deeply and without schmalz, he shows the reason why. Recording: good...