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...original Pins and Needles was, in fact, a product of the borscht school: Composer Harold (I Can Get It for You Wholesale} Rome, then an unknown tune peddler, was a member of the staff of a resort hotel when the I.L.G.W.U. heard of his talent for grinding out entertainment for the guests. He agreed to write songs for the union's review, and the next four years he turned out four different versions of Pins and Needles. The Columbia album is "a compendium of the best" from each edition...
...about 20 well-known professional groups, like the Stars of Faith, singing for pay around the country and getting paid well. Such gospelers as Clara Ward and her Ward Singers, who tour in a custom-built lavender Chrysler, are taking the Word as far afield as nightclubs and the borscht circuit. Even the big record companies have begun to realize that gospel sells-chiefly, as one A. & R. man points out, because "gospel singing has the greatest concentration of exciting voices in the country." Although Clara Ward is a veteran queen of the gospelers, some fans think that...
...Pulitzer Prizewinner You Can't Take It with You) and directed eleven (including My Fair Lady and Camelot); of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. The son of an impoverished cigarmaker, Hart broke into the entertainment business as a social director on New York's "borscht circuit." wrote his first successful play (Once in a Lifetime) at 26 with longtime collaborator George S. Kaufman, went on to turn out a long series of hits including The Man Who Came to Dinner and Lady in the Dark, out of remembered horror of his boyhood poverty disposed...
Such unstinting European praise has greeted Soprano Lear and Baritone Stewart ever since they stopped knocking truitlessly on impresarios' doors in the U.S. four years ago. Schooled in borscht belt hotels and summer stock, they both won Fulbright scholarships and in 1957 entered Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. There they were discovered by Director Carl Ebert of the Berlin City Opera (predecessor of the Deutsche Opera Berlin), who signed them both for his company. Their debuts-Stewart's as Escamillo in Carmen in 1958. Lear's as the Composer in Ariadne the next year...
...what was the important thing you wanted to see me about?" I inquired, blocking Boris' shot with my stomach. "Are you raising price supports on borscht...