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...Philadelphia Orchestra in 1954, the idle dream and the classical passion harmonized nicely. Kaye, 68, has since trotted out his tux for guest appearances with symphony orchestras from San Francisco to Stockholm. For PBS's Sept. 23 Live from Lincoln Center performance of the New York Philharmonic, the baton will be passed by Musical Director Zubin Mehta, 45. Kaye does not read music, but, says he: "I know the scores by heart. I know the nuances I want. I just relay my instructions to the orchestra with expressions instead of my hands...
...Director Gene Saks' nimble hands, the characters suffer the gauntlet of Pacific perils from mudslides to brushfires to shudderingly mirthful earthquakes. Furth's people are antic and simpatico. Mae (Betty Garrett) has been an offstage mother to her orchestra conductor son since he first brandished a baton. That he is 40 and a bachelor mortifies her, but not as much as having blurted out on a TV interview that he was not a homosexual...
...seats, didn't you," shouts Ned Van Alstyne at the closest onlookers. A bit worried, one boy jumps up from his spot on the Brattle Square traffic island and hurries across the street toward Bailey's. Van Alstyne and his partner finish their startling display, extinguish the last flaming baton, and begin circulating their matching black derbies among the applauding crowd of 100 people...
Gerald was convicted in 1979 for attempting to extort money from a contractor who faced late charges for failing to complete the Baton Rouge Civic Center on time. According to testimony, Gerald offered to distribute money among members of the Baton Rouge city council. Despite conviction, he won a third senate term, then went off to jail. There he befriended Everett Bleichner, an insurance adjuster convicted of extortion. Bleichner was released on Feb. 9. and Gerald made him a senate aide. After years of never expelling anyone, the senate last week voted 33 to 3 to oust Gerald...
...Robert Louis Stevenson. Ordinarily depicted as a dour, moody presence, Stevenson gave a photo to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner that meets Weston's dictum: it lays open a vital and engaging face. A forefinger of his clasped hands points outward like a conductor's baton, and intelligence, so rarely caught on film, dances in warm eyes...