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...piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Com-pany never considered Elektra a best seller. Yet when the opera was revived last week at the Met, a capacity audience, including silk hats and standees, gave it the lustiest ovation heard there in several seasons. Principal object of their applause: a dark, hefty Hungarian soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under...
...possibility that a boycott can prevent the sale of any great part of the silk hosiery turned out by U. S. manufacturers (42,000,000 dozen pairs in 1936) or throw the 90,000 workers in the industry out of a job seemed slim. About 65% of silk hosiery machines in operation can be converted to lisle or rayon production without much loss. Tide last week reported that during the last two months 55 manufacturers have begun to make lisle hosiery although only five did so before...
Managing Director Earl Constantine of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers finally issued a warning to his trade: a silk stocking boycott would hurt hosiery mills because lisle stockings wear four times as long as silk and 42,000.000 dozen pairs of silk stockings annually would shrink to ten or twelve million annual output if lisle were substituted...
Such theorizing may be tested if imports of raw silk continue to decline. Militant boycotters point with pride to July when some $4.000.000 was lopped off the $10,940,000 worth of raw silk Japan sold the U. S. in January. October's $8,327,000 slipped to an estimated $6,300.000 in November...