Word: andr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the Hollywood studios, everyone used to call quiet André Previn "the kid." But not any more: all of a sudden he had grown up. Last week, just before his 19th birthday, M-G-M assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 musical...
...André and his parents arrived in the U.S. ten years ago. As a conservatory student in his native Berlin, he learned about the old masters. In Los Angeles he heard a jazz record by famed Pianist Art Tatum and "went on a mad Tatum kick for four years." José Iturbi heard Andre playing boogie, got him to arrange the boogie pieces for his Holiday in Mexico. M-G-M signed Andre just after he graduated from high school, put him on studio chores- everything from playing the piano for rehearsals to "watching sink" (synchronizing the film with...
...André quickly learned the tricks of composing with a stopwatch in his hand. Last year, he got his first big breaks: scoring music for The Hucksters, playing piano in Frank Sinatra's It Happened in Brooklyn...
...song, he improvised a copla, and the boy tried to make one up, too. Then the man improvised verse after verse for an hour-about each of us, about the beer garden, about the weather, about the country. As he left, the ragamuffin said reverently: 'That was Andrés Eloy Blanco...
...Novelist André Malraux, De Gaulle's highbrow pressagent, rang a tocsin of his own: he predicted that Maurice Thorez' Communist legions would soon launch a major offensive which might lead to civil war by April 15. Other alarms came from a less intellectual but intensely French quarter. In Paris, 5,000 midinettes, shivering in thin coats, protested against their dismissals by Paris dress houses (which were suffering a slump despite the New Look). Cried clothing union leader Alice Brisset: "Hardy measures are needed...