Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alone in a Nest. Now Dorothy has left the fellahin class, and at roughly $1,000 a week is a member of Hollywood's petite bourgeoisie. At 26 (Warner's wants her to say 24), she is a solemn sort of flapper. She can imitate a drum, a trombone or a sea lion brilliantly, 'but just as often she imitates Joseph Alsop, brooding fitfully about life and Laos ("The world's problems bother me"). Although she is more than a starlet-Hollywood has no word for a young actress who is steadily but not spectacularly employed...
...Cohn: Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor). A sequel to the unpredictably popular Drum Suite album of several years ago. Composer-Saxophonist Cohn coaxes six drummers (on snares, cymbals, tom-toms) into a sort of illustrated seminar on the art of drumming-from brush technique to rim shots. Cohn wraps his lessons into a number of his own big-band compositions with such variety and skill that listeners can forgive a little too much tick, thump...
With little of the drum-beating that preceded the debuts this season of Anna Moffo, Eileen Farrell and Leontyhe Price, the Metropolitan Opera last week introduced Manhattan audiences to yet another fine American soprano-Hartford-born Gianna D'Angelo. Soprano D'Angelo, 31, made her debut portraying one of the silliest of all operatic heroines, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. But she triumphed over the role with such apparent ease that by evening's end she was firmly fixed as one of the Met's most promising sopranos...
...hangouts were closed early on police orders. On top of that, Jade Beach, traditionally the scene of wholesale woo after dark, was declared off limits. Worst of all, the girls were in dismayingly short supply, outnumbered 10 to 1 by the boys. Any small diversion-someone playing a bongo drum, a girl dancing the limbo-attracted hundreds of listless onlookers. Joseph Penar, a bearded student from Illinois State Normal University, shinnied up a coconut palm one day, for lack of something better to do. "When I got to the top," he reported, "I looked down and saw 300 kids standing...
...apparently a World War II leftover. He slept awhile, then began to build a raft of several large pieces of driftwood, which he tied together with some rusty electrical wire he found. On his third day on the island, the waves washed up a rusty but seaworthy 50-gallon drum. Placing the drum in the open center of his 6-ft. by 8-ft. raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve as reins. Then, straddling the drum like a maritime bronco buster...