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...Spare the Horses. Grandiose spectacles, and the sumptuous grandeur of its own size and trappings, have made the $4,600,000 Music Hall a show business nonpareil and a major tourist magnet. Last year, at prices from 80? to $2.40, it drew 16 times as many visitors as the Statue of Liberty. Of its 8,000,000 annual customers, half are out-of-towners...
Conquests to Come. Three months ago, convoyed by a housekeeper, valet and chauffeur, Berle moved into a sumptuous nine-room bachelor apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. There he keeps in touch with Broadway and Hollywood through two phones in each of four rooms. Aside from mellowing him, success has awakened some tony tastes that amuse old acquaintances. He has recently taken to Homburgs, dark, dignified suits, fancier restaurants, and an occasional pose of world-weariness...
...when Lund thinks that his wife has begun to love him, the lily-like Lucrezia tries to do him in with a dollop of poisoned wine. Lund seems to enjoy all this nonsense, but he is the only member of the cast who does. Miss Goddard, trailing around in sumptuous gowns, waits in vain for an opportunity to climb alluringly in & out of a Renaissance...
Perle Mesta's parties are neither so fancy nor so noisy as Mrs. Evalyn McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
...also grabbed some of the most unconventional talent in the business: there would be a Preston Sturges original for Clark Gable, a comedy by Garson Kanin, and Quo Vadis?, a mammoth epic to be shot in Italy by John Huston. But there were also plenty of safe, sumptuous projects along the more familiar M-G-Model, e.g., Annie Get Your Gun, the Broadway musical, a sequel to Mrs. Miniver, and what was described as an "adult" love story for Lana Turner...