Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Manhattan gallerygoers saw another storytelling title that made them look twice at the picture. Boston Painter Glenna Miller had called her portrait of a barber (see cut): All Men Strive, but Who Shall Succeed...
...Samuel Barber: Capricorn Concerto (Saidehberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Scored in Bach's concerto grosso style for flute, oboe and trumpet solo plus strings, it smacks more of Stravinsky than Bach, has a sensuous eeriness typical of some of Barber's later works...
Next morning he was up early, skipped his usual ritual of a morning walk because of chilling rain. His old Army barber, Frank Spina, dropped by to give him a haircut, reported that the presidential locks had scarcely thinned since 1917. Just before noon Harry Truman got the news he had come for. Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the Presidential physician, reported that old Mrs. Truman would be sitting up by the end of the month, might even be able to walk again...
Created by a solemn, helpless-looking Liverpudlian named Harry Hanan, Louie is a solemn, helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes a henpecked husband, a wistful bachelor, a timid burglar-but always a meek soul with an inferiority complex about women. Like his happily married creator, Louie suffers from a gnawing desire to snip feathers off women's hats...
...final stop last week was Daingerfield. There the barnstormers were greeted by a court square full of people. "How much do you want?" asked one citizen. The answer: $20,000. The town barber promptly plunked down $150, said: "A guy just can't go wrong." In a few hours $32,000 was raised...