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...begun. But Booth Tarkington was 51. After his young success with costume romance (Monsieur Beaucaire) and carefree playwriting abroad with Harry Leon Wilson (The Man from Home), he had gone back to Indiana in 1911, there to come to his prime, and make his fortune, in one of the freshest and most crassly confident decades in U.S. history. It was as a reassuring revivalist of that decade that people went on reading Tarkington's annual stories...
Wrapped in a style as translucent and endearing as white tissue paper (with here & there a spangle), this playlet uses none of the stunting with language by which E. E. Cummings is known as the most wayward-as well as the freshest-of U.S. lyricists. But it definitely belongs on the grown-up side of the Christmas tree...
...Allen joined Benny, Bergen, McGee & Hope, no rival network has been able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...
...hole in her stocking"). Newest favorite at Greenwich Village's famed Cafe Society Downtown is Sarah Vaughn, a pianist turned vocalist, who swoops up & down and around the melody in East of the Sun and Body and Soul. Some students of the subject say she is the freshest Negro talent since Ella Fitzgerald, the tisket-a-tasket girl, who is the easiest-riding rhythm singer in the business. Another promising Negress: slinky Pearl Bailey, who stops the show with Legalize My Name in Broadway's St. Louis Woman...
Spurred by a weekly radio deadline, David Rose was fast becoming America's most prolific contemporary composer. Last week, for the eighth week in a row, he presented an original composition on his Holiday for Music (CBS, 10:30 p.m., E.D.S.T.). To many a listener he seemed the freshest figure in this spring's broadcasting...