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While Porter is laboring under this misconception, his audiences are not finding the going too smooth either. For Silk Stockings lacks even the tuneful amiability of his last show. Silk Stockings, you will soon find, lacks just about everything except some of that splendor which Mielziner imparts to any setting. Porter's ballads are so similar that the overture is only one, uninterrupted composition. There are none of the patter songs, those mixtures of Bulfinch, Shakespeare, and Louella O. Parsons which have paced the memorable Porter productions. He does, it is true, get off "A girl could flatten Lord Mount...
...years of uninformed applause, the opera stands, near-perfect. Moving this drama from the Spain of the last century to the South of a decade ago does not bring the characters closer to the audience. The switch in locale merely points up incongruities which slip by better in the splendor of opera. When an American murders his love, for example, he does not burst into song. The U.S. is not a country of temporizers; business is business and it is not diluted with arias...
...suit coat. A jacket, sweater, extra shirt, etc., does not qualify," writes Patrick. "A tie is defined as a four-in-hand tie or a bow tie. Shoe string ties do not qualify, nor do searfs," he continued. Patrick contends that "the Harvard freshman has lost his sartorial splendor...
...imagination) and Pablo Picasso (for passion). Picasso, the only one still living, has always been more easily bored than the others, and has always come back bursting with new beauties. If much of his work is mud, the best is thunder and lightning which makes Matisse's rainbow splendor seem a bit thin by comparison...
...corporate conscience. But he knows that the corporation is not "soulless," as a past generation said it was. The corporation has tasted power; it can, therefore, be politically damned or it can be politically saved. Berle says that the implications of his line of thought "have both splendor and terror...