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Boston's best day in years, from the extremely specialized view of the jazz fan, must certainly have been last Sunday. The Jazz Club had Bobby Hackett, Brad Gowans, and Charlie Vinal at the Copley Square Hotel in the best session, of its series, and in the evening Duke Ellington appeared at Symphony Hall. In addition to topping anything the town has heard in many months, both events were sold...
...Bobby Hackett, the well-known cornet-player, will be featured with Ivan Wain-wright's Blue Boys at the Jazz Club's sixth session in the Hop Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel Sunday afternoon, December 12, from 3 to 6 o'clock. Hackett, a native of Boston, has led the band at Nick's in New York, and once played with Glenn Miller...
...ROGER C. HACKETT Balboa...
...Great Big Doorstep (adapted by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett from the novel by E. P. O'Donnell; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a folk comedy about a ramshackle family of Cajuns in lower Louisiana. Its pleasant sliver of plot concerns their fishing a handsome doorstep out of the Mississippi and then trying to get a house to go with...
Authors Goodrich and Hackett have turned out some clever lines, and there's more than a little beauty in some of the Commodore's eye-raising views on life in the bayous. But they had little to start out with, in the form of material, and wound up with still less. Joy Geffen and Jeanne Perkins Smith, as the two Crochet daughters, and Jack Manning at the son, are effective and almost believable. But the play as a whole is a loss; it tries hard to be slight and unpretentious, and succeeds so well that for all practical purposes...