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Pittsburgh-born Enroll Garner, playing trademark tunes such as When Johnny Comes Marching Home and My Heart Stood Still, displays a lot of chordy harmonic curiosity, with occasional lapses into his running-waterfall style. Bumptious Joe Bushkin, the flashiest current craze (see above), plays with steadier rhythm and a harder, right-handed riffing style. The only woman in the list so far, Dardanelle (Breckenridge), shows a light, teasing touch, articulate phrasing. Ralph Sutton, a favorite at Greenwich Village's Eddie Condon's, bumps out Ain't Mishavin', Muskat Ramble and Deep Henderson in two-beat...
Pushkin's tale deals with a young Russian officer who is looking for the secret of success at cards. The time is the early 19th century, at the height of the great Russian faro craze. The officer, played by Anton Walbrook in this British adaptation, is a very intense young man who believes in "taking life by the throat" to get what he wants. In the process of taking life by the throat, the officer delves into black magic, frightens a mysterious old countess to death, and eventually goes...
...television industry hardly knew, last week, whether to wince or cheer. In a baccalaureate address. Boston University's President Dr. Daniel L. Marsh warned that "if the [television] craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons." But from a suburb of TV-happy Baltimore came cheerier news. A survey made by School Principal Joseph Barlow of Essex, Md. seemed to show that TV has knit families more closely; reduced street accidents to children; improved adolescent behavior; sped up housework by wives eager to get to their sets; and cut down...
...corral. Last year small fry bought 15 million Hopalong comic books. They clamor incessantly for such items as Hoppy roller skates (complete with spurs and jewel-studded ankle straps) and Hopalong bicycles (leather-fringed saddles, handlebars shaped like steer's horns, built-in gun holsters). Because of the craze for Hopalong hats, shirts, chaps, boots, six-shooters and gun belts, Boyd claims that U.S. manufacturers of 56% of all the Western-type merchandise are paying him royalties for Hopalong Cassidy endorsements...
Champagne for Caesar (Harry Popkin; United Artists) has a head start over most Hollywood comedies: an original idea with some satiric bite. But it soon grows painfully clear that the idea has fallen into the wrong hands. Setting out to make radio's giveaway craze look silly, the picture winds up looking even sillier...