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...first is Bobby Hackett, who opened at the Versallies last Monday for an indefinite stay. He's fronting a local band, which unfortunately doesn't nearly measure up to the standard set by the combinations which played down at Nick's. Yet Bobby himself would be worth listening to if he were fronting the bagpipe contingent of the Cameron Highlanders. Besides this, when the band plays a "jump" tune, you can be sure it's nothing like the inneouous riff numbers which have been giving too many orchestras a trite style, and which have hampered any attempts at musical individually...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Bobby Hackett will open at the Versailles (ex Southland) on Monday, fronting a ten-piece local band. I heard Bobby last week, and he's right in his prime, so his stay at the Versailles will be welcome to all of us who remember him from Nick's and the Theatrical Club; and will be a pleasant surprise to those who have yet to hear him in person . . . If you have a car, get down to Providence on Sunday, for the afternoon jam session at the Crown Hotel. These sessions have been extremely popular...
...much valuable work in the field of record collecting, bringing to light obscure yet excellent musicians, and the like. Contributors have included George Avakian, who is responsible for Decca's Chicago Jazz Album and many of the Columbia reissues, George Frazier, who is more or less responsible for Bobby Hackett, and a number of other well-known critics, musicians, photographers and artists. Each issue carries a comprehensive news column with complete information on where your favorite bands are and for how long and whatever else you might want to know. Finally, subscribers are entitled to a free record every...
...North (by Owen Davis, produced by Alfred de Liagre Jr.) is based on The New Yorker* sketches and a detective novel by the New York Sun's Dramacritic Richard Lockridge and his wife. The Norths (Albert Hackett & Peggy Conklin) are a nice young Greenwich Village couple who have a nice time until Mr. North opens the living-room closet to get the mixings for a drink and a corpse falls out. This rigid, sudden corpse-fall, the best in many dramatic seasons, is executed by a young actor named Robert Lieb who gets no program credit. Thereafter the Norths...
...there are at least 2,000,000 people who are twins, triplets or quadruplets. The man who gets asked most about them is Geneticist Horatio Hackett Newman of the University of Chicago. In the past 25 years he has received hundreds of letters from twins, "supertwins," parents of twins, and women who want them. They ask him all sorts of questions, "some sensible, some rather silly." Last fortnight Professor Newman published a book on Multiple Human Births (Doubleday, Doran; $2.50) which ought to get him ahead of the questions for the next few years...