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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jazzman Sidney Bechet soloes in his own Ballet, which has been a success in France. The story concerns a somnambulist who kills his family while he is asleep, only to be led to his own death by a slave. The music at first alternates between late romantic and jazz styles, then combines the two. The jazz is excellent, while the classical sections are rather dramatic. When combined, Bechet has an interesting musical admixture that fits the weird story...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: Outstanding Current Releases | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

When a play is going to consider the implications of what little boys and girls do at five in the morning when Papa is asleep, it is generally sophisticated or moral. Debut attempts, and fails, to be the former, and has a careless disregard for the latter. The result is an innocuous bit of piddle, diffuse in conception and dull in execution...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Debut | 2/9/1956 | See Source »

...Grandfather Smallweed, who is "in a helpless condition as to his lower, and nearly so as to his upper limbs," and the senile dementia of his wife, who suffers from "such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dickensian Diagnoses | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...year his uncle made Bill eat and pick things up with his left hand; once when he fell asleep clutching a half-eaten turkey drumstick in his right fist, Uncle Bob switched the bone to Billy's left hand so that he would wake up with everything right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Along Came Bill | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Susie is handed a Teddy bear to play with in the operating room. As she fondles it, gas hisses from a concealed tube in the bear's snout. After Susie drops quietly asleep, she is given deeper anesthesia through a mask. Gas-emitting space helmets, toy telephones, dolls and a host of other toys are also used as foils for anesthesia. Most doctors agree that children should be given a truthful description of the steps that will lead to unconsciousness. But the fascination of a plaything is usually enough to erase the child's fear of the operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anesthesia via Teddy Bear | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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