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...Jean (The Duenna) Karsavina's libretto, the mustachioed gambler challenges champion frog Dan'l Webster's owner Smiley, then feeds Dan'l up on quail shot while the boys are outside laying their bets for the easy money. Before the contest comes off, the gambler strolls off for a mustache-twirling romance-which provides Composer Foss with an opportunity for some witty, satirical mustache-twirling music. Dan'l loses the contest, but the villain's villainies are found out, and he is brought to frontier justice...
...According to Webster's: performing in excess of what is required...
...trouble began in the first round when 13-year-old Audrey Mathews of Washington was sent down in tears for spelling supersede with a "c." Four rounds later, red-faced judges called her back after finding that such a respectable authority as Webster's unabridged dictionary accepted Audrey's spelling as a correct variant. Nobody could remember when National Spelling Bee judges had ever had to reverse themselves in such fashion. And they were not through backtracking. Before the contest was over they had done it three times more, belatedly accepting knarled (for gnarled), coruscate with a double...
Jussi is looking forward to getting a few hints on histrionics before he sings on opening night at the Met next November. His assignment: the title role in Verdi's Don Carlos, with Broadway Shakespearean Director Margaret Webster doing the directing and giving Jussi the hints...
Irene Rich, 58, star of the silent screen who recently played the first woman President of the U.S. in Broadway's long-running As the Girls Go, was to be a bride for the fourth time. The groom-to-be: Utilities (Stone & Webster, Inc.) Executive George H. Clifford, 68, a widower...