Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britishers have hungered for American musicals since their first taste of Oklahomal and Annie Get Your Gun. Last month the latest in a long string opened and the critics, at least, seem to have gotten their fill. The Pajama Game, awaited because the Queen Mother had singled it out in New York, collected pans and mild jeers. Most reviewers found it coarse, loud, and unfunny. They especially deplored the enthusiasm of the audience and the seven curtain calls...
...Civilian Schine planned to take up his chores (for which he drew handsome salaries throughout his Army days) as president and general manager of his father's nation-spanning chain of five hotels (e.g., Florida's Boca Raton, Los Angeles' Ambassador) and as boss of a string of more than 150 movie houses...
...Guitar by Kaspar Furstenau, a contemporary of Beethoven. Its rather uninteresting music was partially redeemed by the sparkling flute playing of Karl Kraber, and the rare use of a guitar as the accompanying instrument. Richard Zaffron handled this part adequately, but with a curious disinclination to dampen a string once sounded...
...charming" and "suavely staffed." Located in the heart of Canada's most loyal citadel of British ways and manners, the hotel greets its well-mannered guests with a massive display of paneled walls, beamed ceilings and straight-backed chairs, serves them tea to the discreet accompaniment of a string ensemble. Small wonder, therefore, that an undersized, untweedy man wearing blue jeans, a grey fedora and a blue polka-dot handkerchief over the lower part of his face, was emphatically snubbed when he started to hold up the hotel's coffeeshop at pistolpoint last week...
...Light Touch. In El Paso, officials at Fort Bliss formally dedicated a new $310,000 Army mess hall by using a meat cleaver to cut a 6-ft. string of hot dogs stretched in front of the entrance...