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Last week's sellout audience compared the Paganini favorably with such well-established quartets as the Budapest, the Pro Arte and the Roth. The San Francisco Examiner's Alexander Fried took a longer view. Said he: "You don't pick a champeen after he's won one bout in Kalamazoo...
...Sour Apples. Ingersoll admits that his adless Great Experiment (a first-issue sellout) grew tiresome: "Someone on Broadway cracked, 'PM's a paper gotten out by young fogies.' Everybody giggled . . . the public didn't like it for sour apples." By August, 1940, the "faithful" had slumped to a paltry 31,000 in a city of 7½ million. Since then, PM has had its ups & downs, has enjoyed occasional dizzying forays into the black...
While the Sun Shines is still running in London after more than 1,000 performances; Love in Idleness, renamed O Mistress Mine and starring Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, is now a Broadway sellout...
...between themselves. The editors took pen names: Utin, whose name is a dirty word in Tagalog, became Eric Raymond. His partner, wanting something fancier than Schutz, became Chris Edwards. The first issue of the Philippine-American was peddled in horse-drawn jitney carts, was a 2,000-copy sellout...
...hometown again, the amateur company immediately put on three sellout performances ($1.25 top) in the municipal Playhouse Theater. Director Gweneth Lloyd, energetic Englishwoman who founded the Winnipeg Ballet in 1938, had three new productions in her repertory: Les Coryphées, inspired by Degas' paintings and set to Tchaikovsky music; Kaleidoscope, a suite of national dances; and Dionysos, a mythological affair. Like 15 other Lloyd ballets, including An American in Paris from the Gershwin score, these were choreographic originals...