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...American Velvet Venus...
...great grey Cadillacs glide up to great buildings. Top hats and spats swagger along Commonwealth, while Malacca canes set the pavements smarting. An ascot tie and a white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...
...practical reasons Leginska wears a black velvet costume something like a Prince Albert. Frail shoulder straps would never survive the passion she puts into her music. Only Debussy and the like could be conducted with safety by a lady in conventional evening dress...
...than good. They arouse high hopes which are almost never realized.- But Yehudi was born with great imagination and great concentration, far more important than any amount of boosting. By the time he was seven all San Francisco was talking about him. At ten, a chunky, blond child in velvet knee pants, he played the Beethoven Concerto with the New York Symphony. He amazed everyone who heard him with the purity of his style and the moving way in which his innocence suited the music of Beethoven. From that moment he was taken seriously. In the audience was Banker Henry...
...natural nose is no bigger than a grape. Whenever he sings in opera he has to build it up so that it can be seen over the footlights. But last week's nose he wanted to be particularly imposing. It was to be a nose to match trailing velvet robes, an ermine cape and a regal beehive headgear, a nose that would be worthy of the U. S. premiere of a Verdi opera (75 years after it was written) and of the biggest role that Tibbett has ever had at the Metropolitan...