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...Touch of Venus (book by S. J. Perelman & Ogden Nash; music & lyrics by Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash; produced by Cheryl Crawford...
...touch of Venus does more for Broadway than the last two months of pushing and shoving...
Last week Butte, like other U.S. communities, was busy about its bustling, wartime present. The mines were going at their fullest blast since the depression, Butte's 300 saloons still worked nightily to quench its thirst, the girls of its ' Venus Alley" still sat in front of their cribs as did those of oldtime Galena Street, its cuisine still ranged from fried bear steak to Cornish pastries, its inhabitants still quarreled in some 30 different languages and dialects. In war as in peace, Butte was still a mining camp, still one of the rowdiest towns...
...slim, unruffled expert made sense last week. Said Mrs. Mary Brewster White, OWI's expert on womanpower, to 300 clothes-conscious fashion editors and designers: "If there must be pants ... let them be designed so that they do not dishearten 'she who doubles any measurement that Venus can offer.' . . . [As] for ruffles . . . they have no place in wartime...
...standing on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House-TIME, Dec. 11, 1939.) On plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines of a newspaper, spied a pretty girl, promptly proposed, was promptly turned down. When the police arrived, he grabbed...