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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran jazz bandleaders unburdened themselves on bebop. Sniffed schmalzy Guy Lombardo: "It's laid a big egg. As a matter of fact, it's nothing. I don't even know what they're doing, do you?" Snapped Swingman Tommy Dorsey: "I don't like bebop, and I admit it. I don't know anything about it, and I don't like the look of the people that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Birthday | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Skating Cinemactress Sonja Henie and Socialite-Aviator Winthrop Gardiner Jr. took off in his brand-new plane for a Long Island weekend, leaving a slipstream of elopement rumors. Headlined New York's Daily News: SONJA, GUY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Birthday | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...short, concluded Critic Breeskin, "The guy's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Guy's Good | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Girl In the Painting (Rank; Universal-International) begins with a mere dab of an idea. A British major (Guy Rolfe), dropping in at a London exhibition of wartime paintings, falls in love with a portrait of "Hildegard" (Mai Zetterling), a beautiful displaced blonde, and determines to find her. In the course of ransacking D.P. camps in occupied Germany, he meets not only Hildegard but a sinister, disguised SS general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...story was familiar, at least in outline: Librettist Eric (Let's Make an Opera) Crozier had freely adapted his comic libretto from Guy de Maupassant's Le Rosier de Madame Husson. A bumpkin is chosen King of the May because in the village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten's Week | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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