Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tallulahs. If anyone thought Showman Billy intended to cure the Met by turning Mrs. Rose (onetime swimmer Eleanor Holm) into a Rhine maiden, as every wag east of San Francisco jumped to suggest, they had a surprise coming. Billy's first businesslike solution for management problems was to save part of last year's $220,000 loss by lopping off four of the Met's five managers. As for General Manager Edward Johnson, "the mess of red ink on your books ought to tell you that Eddie is badly miscast as bossman of a setup which features...
...ardent persistence they have never offered to other stars of greater beauty and larger gifts? Betty Grable, long-shanked, blue-eyed, 5 ft. 3½ in., no pounds, knows one answer. "Girls," she says, "can see me in a picture and feel I could be one of them." A wag with a parody spoke for the male audience when he sang, with no perceptible rancor toward Betty's bandleader husband...
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A wag once tried to describe this fustian piece: "It is he, the Hero, and he has been drinking again. He is in E flat, and his cuffs are soiled by numerous dissonances . . . Four plain-clothes detectives come in on a sharp glissando, and, seizing the Hero, throw over his head a dark-tasting chord . . ." Performance: good. Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Some of the pleasantest music Richard Strauss ever wrote, pleasingly played. Recordings: good...
Here & there, the trained seals were dragging their flippers. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter refused to let his byline be put on his MacArthur story. On the Los Angeles Examiner, a wag cracked : "MacArthur will wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home...
Onstage, Kay, her blonde hair brushed severely back, looks about 30, but owns to 35. One Hollywood wag says she "has a young face made up of old materials." Says she of her act: "I always wanted...