Word: gig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stephanie Blake. A household mutiny is also the theme of Keep It in the Family, a London import featuring Maureen O'Sullivan. Another West End hit making the passage: Terence Frisby's There's a Girl in My Soup, concerning a lady-killing culinary expert (Gig Young...
...Take a card, take a card.' " Still, determination paid off. At 14, Johnny was a pro. His mother stitched up an impressive black banner emblazoned with yellow Chinese-like characters reading THE GREAT CARSONI, and Johnny played the Norfolk Rotary Club and local parties at $3 per gig...
...booked into Dallas, where transoceanic satire is as welcome as revisions in the oil-depletion allowance. "It was murder," Hendra recalls. "They canceled us in a week." The boys have since played everything from the Catskills' Borscht Belt to a shortlived TV show called The Entertainers. Their favorite gig was at Mister Kelly's in Chicago, which burned down while they were onstage. The band played Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Nic stepped out to reassure the patrons: "Don't worry, my partner once quieted down an audience in a fire to avoid panic, and they...
...British captain. "We need a coach-and-four," groaned a U.S. player. But the colonials have just begun to fight. Back home, plans were already afoot to form a kind of U.S. Olympic team of malleteers, including all the croquet greats: Composer Richard Rodgers, Actors David Wayne and Gig Young, and as spiritual leader, a man described as "a living croquet legend in his lifetime," Ambassador W. Averell Harriman...
...When we started playing, man, they forgot all about Viet Nam." It was Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fatha") Mines crooning as he and his cool, cool sextet finished up a six-week gig around Russia. After inviting them, the Soviet government did everything it could think of to mash the smash-even going so far as to cancel scheduled performances in Moscow and Leningrad. Hines and his boys found plenty of cats in the boondocks, playing to S.R.O. crowds. "Jazz is happiness," grinned Fatha. "I know the Russians don't have much to smile about, but after they heard...