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Last week after a six-year run in Prague and several tours of Europe, Laterna Magika arrived for a six-week stand in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. On opening night a full and fashionable house sat still for a 2½hour show that started with a swift skid through schmaltz (a 90-minute medley of scenes from Jacques Offenbach's romantic opera, Tales of Hoffmann) and finished with a swift skip through the silly side of the medium (a hilarious short subject in which the actors in one movie wander accidentally into another...
...business leaders, alarmed at the city's skid, formed a nonprofit organization called Civic Progress, Inc. It backed Engineer Raymond Roche Tucker, for mayor. Back in the late 1930s, Tucker had come up with a plan to eliminate the city's then notorious smog cover by cutting down the amount of volatile fuel used by industry. He later was named chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at St. Louis' Washington University. Democrat Tucker gave up his $20,000-a-year job for the $10,000-a-year mayor's post...
Died. Mazie Phillips, 72, angel of mercy to Manhattan's Bowery bums, a guttural-voiced platinum blonde who worked as a cashier in a Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...nature of high-speed expressways that the slightest obstruction, like a pebble in a rifle barrel, creates chaos. Martin's skid jammed traffic for ten miles, blocked the highway for three hours...
...charged that he had taken "loans" from National's lawyer), after which his longtime alcoholism reached the point where he was unable to stand trial for fraud, lived his last years in and out of hospitals and on handouts; in Miami, where police found his body in a Skid Row room five to eight days after death, presumably of cirrhosis of the liver...