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...Life. Last week, between showings of Fanny, customers got 37 minutes of Americana that included the choir from Centenary College in Shreveport, La., singing Beautiful Dreamer before a backdrop of amiably winking stars. French tumblers sang while they somersaulted, and a ballet was performed before a village bandstand to John Philip Sousa marches, in which the dancers spread their skirts in semicircular swirls, suggesting so many red, white and blue cheese cutters. And, of course, the celebrated chorus line of Rockettes was there, kicking and tapping with brilliant puellageneity. In the end, a glowing reproduction of the Statue of Liberty...
...however, Newton discovered that it could tune in three television channels; it acquired two drive-in movies and an air-conditioned bowling alley. The sound of trumpets and drums seemed to fade into the summer heat. The 45-member band does not even have uniforms any more. The bandstand is long gone, and concerts are held in Themian Park, where facilities consist of folding chairs set under one dim arc of light. On a recent evening only 86 persons were moved to share the sentiments of a local farmer who stretched full length on the grass and sighed: "If there...
Casual Kazoo. Last week, fresh off the road, Hirt was packing them in at the Pier 600 Club on Bourbon Street, where his success began. A huge (6 ft. 2 in., 300 lbs.), bush-bearded man, he stands on the bandstand, his trumpet like a toy kazoo in one hamlike hand. With his other hand, he sketches out a casual beat. Then he may break into a surprisingly agile buck and wing and lead his combo (trombone, clarinet, drums, bass, piano, trumpet) into a searing chorus of Down by the Riverside. Snarling, growling, shivering into a remarkably clean vibrato...
Perkins' talk came at the end of "Freedom March" down Columbus Ave., from Carter Playground in Roxbury to Parkman Bandstand on the Common...
Demonstrators will assemble at the Bandstand on the Boston Common to pick up pickets and leaflets, Zevin said. They will proceed to the corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets to picket and pass out leaflets for the rest of the afternoon...