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...this central fact is built the snail merchandising profession. Cadart tells how snails are collected in the wild or raised in breeding establishments. In summer they are placed in "parks" (which date back to Roman times) and provided with shade and moisture. They are fed cabbage or other nourishing food and given loose soil to dig in. The idea is to bring them to bouchage in top condition. Fat and healthy, they dig their nests and seal themselves in for the winter. Then the snail breeders dig them up and ship them to buyers. When snails are broiled, the mucus...
...Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That meant he had to create about 100 individual designs and fit about 600 costumes for the show. He also had to keep in mind that he was working for both color and black and white (if he uses the wrong shade, the heroine's face might turn green in certain lights...
...real comic conviction into her voice when she decides it must be classical music "because there's no vocal." Tom Ewell brings the expertise of long familiarity to his part of the agonized husband, but Director Wilder has let several of Ewell's monologues go on a shade too long. In minor roles, Robert Strauss and Donald MacBride also help to slow down the farce pace, while Oscar Homolka, as the psychiatrist, loses most of his best lines in transition from Broadway and delivers the remainder in too impenetrable an accent. Itch should have emerged on the screen...
...trees too have long been a breeding place for all manner of vermin, and I suggest that they be removed at an early date. Shade could still be provided by suspending plastic louvers from steel pylons, and a link with tradition maintained by scattering among them a few clay pigeons and stuffed squirrels. Gerald Robinson...
...should rule Britannia? Suave Sir Anthony Eden, 57, ensconced at last in No. 10 Downing Street after faithful years in the shade of the giant Churchill? Or Clement Attlee, 72, the plain and comfortable architect of the postwar Welfare State? The Conservatives, heirs to Pitt and Disraeli and Churchill, scions of the best schools and families, trustees of the government for the past 3½ years? Or ' the Laborites, offspring of the coalpits, workshops and the London School of Economics...