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Director Maurice Breslow capitalized upon the situation humor of a story in which an attractive village shopgirl determines to marry a fussy widower. She meets him on an ocean voyage around the world which she is taking on the money she has won in a newspaper contest; he is taking the trip in order to write the "Marco Polo Series of Chatty Guide Books...
...ship Empress Pantagonia, opens on the couple seated on deck chairs in front of several blue, paint-spattered screens whose swirling color suggests the ocean. Later the same screens serve as an inconspicuous backdrop for an attractive and colorful village-shop counter where the writer again meets the shopgirl...
Although he felt the pull to Wagner and made ritualistic pilgrimages to Bayreuth, Debussy could not accept ever Wagner without a sneer. Commenting on the characters in Parsifal, he called Amfortas "that melancholy knight of the Grail, who whines like a shopgirl and whimpers like a baby." Yet traces of the Wagnerian influence remained. "But that's the whole of Parsifal,'' muttered Richard Strauss after hearing a particular passage from Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande...
...Side to become the high-living high-fashion arbiter for two generations of U.S. women, sales have slipped from $10 million to last year's $7,000,000. Isaacs plans "an immediate, aggressive expansion and diversification," will emphasize Hattie Carnegie clothing and accessories at prices accessible to the shopgirl as well as the society woman...
...virgin shopgirl who finally discovers the love she has been missing, the deserted wife (or were they ever married?) who throws herself down two flights of stairs to induce an abortion, the incomparable spiv who is closer to the heart of modern England than anything Kipling had in mind, move through Author Lessing's narrative like pulsing presences. This is the kind of slice-of-life book that can get to be, and almost always is, a bore at about Chapter 2. What saves it for Author Lessing and the reader is the artlessness that conceals art, the conversational...