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...fire broke out last night at about 11:30 p.m. above the Students' Valet Service in the Square...
...attack. But the one-hour rehearsal goes on, with Ormandy concentrating on the passages where piano and orchestra play together. A messenger is dispatched to obtain a score of the cadenzas. Later Johansen practices backstage, then hurries to the hotel for his tails, which are due back from the valet. No tails. Back to Philharmonic Hall for more practice. Several of the Philadelphia musicians offer to lend Johansen their tails. None fit. Says Ormandy to his men: "Why aren't you on your knees praying...
...Neill's three wives; of an intestinal obstruction; in Point Pleasant, N.J. Her marriage to the iconoclastic author lasted eleven years before ending in divorce because, as she wrote in her memoir, Part of a Long Story, O'Neill wanted a "wife, mistress, mother and valet." Their life was like a battle scene played in a refrigerator: she cared little for the theater and enjoyed parties; he was a recluse whose only outlets were quiet drinking and dramatic writing...
...strongest parts, though not the largest, belong to Frederick Banks as Marcel, the procuring and philandering valet, and Phillipa Lord, the Countess. Banks is appropriately nasty and Miss Lord appropriately aristocratic, each without lapses...
DARLING OF THE DAY is another of this season's dead-as-the-dodo musicals. Weary of adulation, a famous painter assumes his deceased valet's identity and achieves happiness with a pneumatic widow. As the painter, Vincent Price acts like a berserk semaphore and sings in a mauve whisper. As the widow, Patricia Routledge performs with a joyous professional authority lacking in the score and the show...