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Manhattan's seventh annual Polonaise Ball was a little bit of Old Warsaw on Old Park Avenue. The Old Warsaw Orchestra played the Krakowiak, and nearly everybody was there: Mrs. Artur Rubinstein, Mrs. Artur Rodzinski, Vera Zorina...
Married in 1946 to Dancer Vera Zorina (his second), Lieberson likes to be a friend of the famous, is an untiring name-dropper. He was delighted when Rosemary Clooney substituted his name for Franklin Roosevelt's in her recording of How About You?, came up with: "And Goddard Lieberson's looks give me a thrill." Now Lieberson is guiding Columbia into stereophonic sound, this year is planning 200 stereo albums. He is convinced that stereo is a logical refinement of LP rather than another technological revolution, that what is put on records is still more important than...
Actress Montealegre practiced her role -a speaking part that has been played by Ingrid Bergman and Vera Zorina-for six months, started rehearsing it with Lennie a week before the performance. After she got over the nervousness of working with her husband, the rehearsals went just fine. Conductor Bernstein concentrated much of his attention on the Westminster Choir ("Your ha's are fine. but your heh's are lousy"), turned to his wife to offer only an occasional piece of advice: "Darling, I would rather not make such a ritardando...
Gunther's best friends, who tend to be conspicuously witty or pretty, run a stellar range from Addams, Charles, to Zorina, Vera. To Book-of-the-Month Club Judge John Mason Brown, "John's foible isn't name-dropping, it's name-wonder. He's never got over the mica that's in names. He has a child's sense of giving a party, a fairyland belief in celebrities." One fairyland fable who slips frequently in and out of the house on East 62nd Street is Greta Garbo, the "G.G." to whom John...
Rodgers score, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue remains-when such ballets are no longer news-vibrant and exciting. There is a fine dancing rampage to go with the title song; Zorina, in the part she played in London 17 years ago, still has grace and charm; Bobby Van, in Ray Bolger's old role, has much of the master's ease and dexterity; Elaine Stritch stops the show with an aggressively lowdown warbling of an added song, You Took Advantage of Me. But for notable stretches there is torpor on 46th Street...