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...been begging for years to sing it at the Met. So far, he has had to settle for a staged performance in New Orleans last October and two concert versions. While the opera may not be rich enough to justify the cost of a Met revival, this LP does whet the appetite for the whole thing on records, at least. Tucker at 60 continues to project vi brant, tensible tenor strength...
...whet investors' appetites, the government will probably sell off entirely two of its most attractive holdings: Thomas Cook & Son, which last year earned $2,900,000, and Pickfords, a healthy freight forwarder. Profitable sidelines of the major nationalized firms would come next. Indeed, the government is due to begin talks with British Steel this month. One plan suggested by a few hard-lining Tories is to strip the company of its three most promising divisions-chemicals, special steels and construction engineering-and leave it with three less profitable branches. Pessimists in Harold Wilson's Labor Party are already...
...first rule of Anticipatory Theater is not to look for hits and masterpieces, but for what might whet somebody's appetite or stir up a little talk. After all, Oh! Calcutta! has done more for the cocktail party than for the stage. Clothes will be the talk of the season as far as Coco is concerned. This musical, based on the life of famed 86-year-old Fashion Designer Coco Chanel, brings Katharine Hepburn back to the Broadway after a lapse of 17 years. Haute couture will be served with 253 costume changes, and the approaching theater-party ladies...
...Hedda Haber," as she is known in some quarters, often employs the "blind" gossip item, using initials that have meaning in Hollywood and whet curiosity elsewhere. The device makes some of her columns look like alphabet soup. But, she insists, "the public loves to guess." In one of her columns, she told how "Miss PP" (for Prim and Proper) berated "Mr. VV" (Visually Virile) for what she called "his on-screen presence" while shooting a picture. "But I'm the leading lady, dear," the actress was reported to have remarked to her costar. To many in Hollywood, the initials...
Primordial Matter. Though the new findings add greatly to man's skimpy knowledge of comets, they will only whet the appetite of astrophysicists, many of whom believe that the fiery-tailed bodies are well preserved condensations of the primordial matter from which the sun and planets were formed. If that is correct, a complete analysis of a comet might provide valuable information about the beginnings of the solar system. To obtain a sample for such a study, some scientists suggest, an unmanned spacecraft should be shot into the orbit of a regularly reappearing comet. The craft would rendezvous with...