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...just right. The harassed jazz composers and arrangers on the frenzied production lines of Tin Pan Alley, Hollywood and the radio studios were looking for somebody just like him. George Gershwin became a steady customer; so did his buddy, Oscar Levant. Soon many able musicians (Jesse Crawford, Benny Goodman, Vernon Duke) were juggling rhythms and harmonies into endless combinations. Long-haired music schools eschewed Schillinger and all his works: their students had plenty of time to court the muse...
Died. Lindsay Crawford, 76, rough & tumble Irish editor, first Irish Free State consul in the U.S.; in Manhattan. President of the Self-Determination League of Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland, Protestant Irishman Crawford stumped so explosively for total Irish independence that he was once pelted with snow and ice by a Canadian crowd, once drowned out by an irate audience's bawling God Save the King...
...love story is as complicated as radar and as contrived as a screen queen's eyelashes. Yet scene by scene, as played by the extremely personable Phillip Terry (third and present husband of Joan Crawford) and by subtly tough Audrey Long, it becomes about twice as real as the run of movie love bouts. The singing and dancing numbers are on the whole refreshingly lacking in Hollywood's normal polish; they have, indeed, a good deal of the seamy vitality of authentic floor shows. Even more authentic is Robert Benchley's sleepy applause...
...wonder if Mr. Crawford, the Innocent Abroad, ever reads such a story as "Nazi Research?" If he does, he probably manages to disbelieve it; if he can't do that, I suppose he doesn't think it makes much difference...
...Tempest (by William Shakespeare; produced by Cheryl Crawford) was probably Shakespeare's farewell to the theater-a farewell of mingled enchantment and ennui. Done with trying to make sense of life-or even of a play-Shakespeare pitched upon a strange island world almost outside geography. There, while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born...