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Lord Flea. Columbia Records' answer to Victor's Belafonte (who still outsells the rest of the field) is Terry Gilkyson, son of a Pennsylvania insurance executive, who teamed up five years ago with ex-Truck Driver Richard Dehr and sometime Real-Estate Man Frank Miller to form a trio called The Easy Riders. They have sold more than half a million copies of a ditty called Marianne, long familiar to Caribbean tourists. Although this version's heroine is a sweet girl whom even "little children" love, her origins show through the bowdlerized lyrics...
These two have pushed the calypso hits, Terry Gilkyson's "Marianne" and the Tarrier's and Belafonte's "Banaha Boat Song" from the top rungs. The "respectable" disk jockies hope that calypso will end the rock and roll craze. Since calypso includes the "Big Beat," it will certainly be much more successful than the previous white hope--fife and drum music as exemplified by the "Yellow Rose of Texas." Rock and roll, however, is here to stay...
There has been a tendency among certain authors to produce plays and novels with a particular view toward their ultimate adoption as material for motion picture production. Mr. Gilkyson's novel unquestionably has the situation and characters most suitable for use in scenario form. The Freemonts are the people concerned. Martin Freemont is a successful young lawer about to begin a political career which is to see him chosen as the Republican candidate for Congress. His wife is the daughter, oddly enough, of a woman whose selection by the Democratic party as candidate to oppose Martin Freemont complicates the novelist...
Were it not for the occasional entrance into the novel of the stereotyped melodrama we have seen so often on the American screen, Mr. Gilkyson's novel would approach high quality. His prose is unflowered, simple and direct. It has the matter of fact tempo of its characters. Perhaps it is the most suitable fashion in which to achieve successful presentation of middle class people, but it is not even remotely capable of the engrossing effect of the style of Sinclair Lewis. Mr. Gilkyson has made a great potential story for Hollywood but he has sacrified quality in the attempt...
...short-story field, will applaud three rising young men this year, Barry Benefield, Nathan Asch, Glenway Wescott. The hardy perennials are welcome: Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele and Elinor Wylie. Others: Sandra Alexander, Bella Cohen, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Rudolph Fisher, Walter Gilkyson, Manuel Komroff, Robert Robinson, Evelyn Scott, May Stanley, Milton Waldman, Barrett Willoughby...
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