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...lines ever written. On a United Artists album, Diahann Carroll, who appears as Clara in the movie, gets a chance to sing her own part and a number of other songs with the André Previn Trio (Previn was musical director of the film). Singer Carroll's personal Catfish Row apparently runs east from the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room, but at her best-in Oh, I Can't Sit Down and It Ain't Necessarily So-she gives the familiar lyrics a delightfully carbonated tingle all her own. Previn and his men swing behind...
George Clark, professor of Zoology, agreed and pointed out that catfish and eels do not migrate. He said he thought it likely that an anaerobic condition exists in the Charles River water that forces the fish to the top, where they are snapped up by the gulls...
...filled with wheeling, screaming gulls; and the river, its banks, and bridges, are littered with the gulls' victims: the rotting corpses of thousands of herring, catfish, and eels...
Actually, Belafonte remains proudly self-conscious of being a Negro, turned down the part of Porgy in Samuel Goldwyn's production of Porgy and Bess because he felt that Catfish Row presented Negroes in an undignified light. He talks in analytically flavored prose about "Negro situations" and says: "In 1944, with three other Negro sailors and our dates, I was refused a table at the Copacabana. Nine years later I was back there as the headliner. How do you bridge that gap emotionally?" Asked about his second marriage, to a white girl, he says stiffly that the race question...
...done told you?" said a minor actor rehearsing for Sam Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess movie, and there was thunder on Catfish Row. That sort of so-called Negro dialect, said Actress Pearl (Bess) Bailey, is "undignified and unnatural. I don't care if it's Negro or Italian or Greek or French; it's in bad taste." Producer Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger willingly told the Negro performers to leave out anything they did not like. Question: Will one of the show's most famed songs be retitled It Is Not Necessarily...