Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, word had got around that the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra was giving a tombola (lottery) party to honor beloved old (74 next week) Conductor Pierre Monteux-and incidentally to raise a little extra money for the orchestra's contingency fund. Seven thousand San Francisco music lovers filed in and expectantly awaited the guest of honor...
...Circus Horse. Sharp at 8:45 p.m., his shoe-button eyes twinkling and his walrus mustache abristle, Monteux bounced in the front door. He dodged around a full-sized replica of a cable car, wheeled down the main aisle between two rows of beaming debutantes. The San Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein reported he "marched embar-rassedly." Said wife Doris Monteux, 54, who does most of Pierre's talking: "Embarrassedly, my eye . . . He's just like an old circus horse. He's awfully sophisticated, but awfully innocent...
...fashioned tap routine," or "Who wants to sing the alphabet?" His collaborators almost lost hope, but Buddy kept plugging. He persuaded M-G-M Records to record it just before the Petrillo ban; when M-G-M finally released it last December, Buddy spent $1,000 carting the record around to half a dozen cities, badgering disc jockeys, record shops and department stores. Finally, when Crooner Perry Como sang it on his Supper Club program Buddy Kaye hit the jackpot...
Detective Story (by Sidney Kingsley; produced by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) does a full-color job on life in a Manhattan police station. Laid in the detective squad room, it bristles with movement and crackles with drama, is by turns grim and grotesque, touching and horrifying. Around the edges hover wacky complainants and befuddled minor offenders; farther inside, matters are darker, bloodier, more tragic...
...stuffy annex of the State Department last week, tired delegates of 42 nations pushed back their yellow leather chairs, faced each other around a horseshoe-shaped conference table, and cheered. After eight perspiring weeks of negotiations, they had reached a world agreement to "stabilize" the price and export market of wheat...