Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Blues (Blake Reynolds; MacGregor). Strictly for the curious: Reynolds gives a somewhat thick-textured, one-man performance of the old masterpiece on saxophones, clarinets, and rhythm instruments, brought together in a multiple-recording process. A similar trick is performed on Should I? by Geordie Hormel, who favors percussion instruments...
Shuffle Along (music & lyrics by Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle; book by Flournoy Miller & Paul Gerard Smith) is an almost totally different show from the one that Broadway took to its heart in 1921. Unhappily, in fact, it is not really a show at all. A ragged World War II yarn about a lively WAC widow whose husband turns out not to be dead, it shambles and stumbles along in the choking dust of old dialect gags, while the music and dancing seem to prolong the agony rather than interrupt it. From the old days, Shuffle Along has wisely retained...
Disabled Korean veterans may get education or training benefits from the Veterans Administration under the same conditions as World War II veterans, said William J. Blake, manager of the V.A.'s Boston Regional Office, yesterday...
...Blake tried and failed to sell the only copy of the poem which he published in color. Last week the William Blake Trust put 500 facsimile color reproductions of Jerusalem on sale, at $95 a copy. Buyers would find the text hot & heavy going, the illustrations magnificent...
...extravagance of Blake's fantasies (and his anticlerical vehemence) blinded his contemporaries to the height and depth of his spirit. In Blake's wide eyes, human beings were vessels of immortal life, beset with evil yet striving mightily for the divine implanted within them. He painted them that...