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...never sung onstage or with an orchestra before," said Soprano Roberta Peters, 45, recalling her Metropolitan Opera debut 25 years ago. A Met understudy back then and the daughter of a shoe salesman, Peters had been called to duty when Nadine Connor fell ill hours before a scheduled performance in Don Giovanni. Last week, between acts of her 303rd Met performance (in Cost fan Tutte), Peters accepted a silver anniversary bowl from Met Board President William Rockefeller. The "little girl from The Bronx," she observed happily, "had really made...
...different are frequently marked by fierce debate. In the same way that stylists and engineers do battle in auto companies, fashion coordinators and buyers are sometimes at odds with each other at Bloomingdale's. Barbara D'Arcy, the store's director of design, wanted a newly styled shoe department in Bloomingdale's new White Plains branch. She called for putting shoes on a kind of stage, accessible by steps. Buyers balked, saying the design would turn off customers. Traub intervened, sided with D'Arcy, and fortunately so. The White Plains store is doing a booming shoe business...
...Marvin Traub, 50, co-leader with Chairman Lawrence Lachman of what has become known throughout U.S. retailing as "the Bloomingdale's gang." Traub, the son of a corsetmaker, was wounded in World War II and came back with one leg shorter than the other; he wears a built-up shoe yet walks briskly and jogs ten minutes daily before leaving his Tudor-style home in Scarsdale. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1949, he went to work briefly for Alexander's at $100 a week as an assistant to George Farkas, the chief executive. In 1950 he switched...
...been the love-hate pivot of his life. Quite apart from supplying the model for the memorable Amanda Wingfield in Menagerie, this formidable lady, now in her 90th year, stamped certain irreversible traits on Tennessee's attitudes, character and dramatic style. Valiant in coping with her stingy shoe-salesman husband Cornelius' early desertion of the family, self-willed and prone to fits of delusive grandeur as a Southern gentlewoman, Miss Edwina is the greatest single influence on Williams' life and work. When Tennessee uses such locutions as "the study of equitation" for horseback riding or "none...
...ridicule is a shoe that fits so many feet it scarcely matters which one it was taken from. No prior knowledge of Mary Margaret McBride is necessary to enjoy their Mary McGoon, with her recipe for frozen ginger ale salad. One need never have heard Mary Noble, Backstage Wife to enjoy the hilariously muddled banalities of their Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife...