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Furthermore, I am convinced that Beckett modeled his Didi largely on a specific person. Didi's name is the phonetic equivalent of "D.D.," i.e. "Doctor of Divinity." And early in the play Didi starts a discussion of the Gospels. He introduces quite a bit of philosophizing; he sings a ballad and a lullaby; and he has ministered to Gogo spiritually and materially for 50 years, and repeatedly makes medical allusions and diagnoses. Now what person fills the bill--theologian, philosopher, musician, physician, and compassionate servant of the less fortunate for half a century? Albert Schweitzer. If you think this...
...Edison first captured the human voice on a tinfoil-covered cylinder. This week RCA Victor announced its alltime high advance sale for a single pressing-more than 1,000,000 copies of Rock 'n' Roll Hero Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender, a surprisingly restrained love ballad that was just released. The Record Industry Association of America estimated that U.S. record sales have jumped 30% over last year's $225 million. The total may approach $300 million with the Christmas rush...
...Abby was there dancing waltzes, two-steps and the lancers; his father was there, resplendent in white evening gloves with the latest white stitching; his mother, who had a headache and could not come, was nonetheless gratified by the musicale-selections from Carmen, Russian airs by Wieniawski and a ballad called Love's Sorrow...
Candide & Li'l Abner. Producers, writers and musicians have been working on a whopping list of 34 musicals-at least ten of which will probably see an opening night on Broadway. The list ranges from the operatic Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16) to a musical adaptation of Voltaire's Candide by Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman, Conductor-Composer Leonard Bernstein and Poet Richard Wil bur. There are also such suggestions of enchanting evenings as Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting, with a book by Life With Father's Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse; Li'l Abner...
Died. John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 38, prolific Broadway lyricist (The Vamp, Beggar's Holiday), onetime boy wonder (at 20 he had written the lyrics for the song Ballad for Americans, at 22 for the musical Cabin in the Sky); of a heart attack, shortly after revising his lyrics for the folk opera Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16); in Calais...