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Space will not permit of dilation on the many all-night, private jam sessions I have attended, listening to the all-star jamming of such gates as Chu Berry, Louis Armstrong, Leon Roppolo, and Jimmy Harrisson. But I have not listened to their improvising purely with my emotions, for me "toujours I'approche intellectuelle au sujet" (always the intellectual approach for any subject). For instance, I am ravished by the celestial ninths which J. C. Higginbotham (Higgy to his friends, among whom I am proud to say I am numbered) plays on that good old slush-pump...
Playwright Rice cannily offers the audience more than just Boy Meets Girl; his real hero is Manhattan Island. With dozens of minor characters, scenes in subways, taxis, rubberneck wagons, a producer's office, an artist's studio, an all-night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks...
...Gary Bok's expensive parties he would stand about, dazed and unhappy, talking nervously. He preferred drinking quietly with some of the men on his staff. Once he remarked that the only worthwhile thing in Philadelphia was an all-night delicatessen. But Stanley Walker worked hard, often sat late at his desk attending to routine matters. Every Saturday he caught the earliest possible train for New York, went home on Sunday night brimming with stories about nightclub celebrities and Broadway characters...
...more all-day all-night sessions, Fleming and Selznick worked with cutters, taking out, putting in, putting in, taking out, until they had a picture that ran just under four hours. They took this to Riverside, in the orange country, surprised fans there with a sneak preview. With them was Jock Whitney, who had not seen the film before. When the picture ended, tears were streaming down his face...
Dunkers in all-night coffee pots and diners, cabbies dozing on the late-trick hack lines, night watchmen, charwomen, belated motorists, bakers, lighthouse keepers, lobster-trick pressmen, the boys in the bars and all the other sun dodgers standing the great night watch in Manhattan and all along the eastern seaboard have one companion that never goes to sleep on them. That cheerful stayer-up is WNEW's Milkman's Matinee, a 2-to-7 a. m. program of requested recordings, small-fry commercials and chummy gab conducted six mornings a week by a young announcer with...