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Everyone on Broadway except the child actors remembers Percy Hammond, either with delight or something approaching brainstorm. Last week a few of Percy Hammond's intimates had gift copies of a new collection of his work. This Atom In The Audience (his own phrase), privately printed by his free-lancing son John Hammond of Newtown, Conn. Other envious Hammond admirers were tickled to learn that the book could be had on order from bookstores generally...
...Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek, Latin, and History, and James R. Stewart, superintendant of Caretakers, signed the letter with James Biggar and William P. Bunyon, representing Camp Edwards...
...could afford-$200-for 25 minutes of music, and he threw in a dozen extra minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with a few leers, about how an artist and his wife sell a picture to a dealer and his wife. Best of four set pieces...
...Gertrude Lawrence, known to her intimates as "Gertie" or "G," has long had this sort of effect on the most bilious critics. After her Broadway debut in 1924, one of the most acid reviewers, the late Percy Hammond, said that "Every man in town is, or will be, in love with her." Struggling to describe her power over them, otherwise manly reviewers have often found themselves dithering about her large wistful eyes, her tiptilted, crinkling nose, her mischievous smile; or else about the huskiness of her voice, her exquisite back, or the grace of her slim, long-legged, clotheshorse figure...
...means so wild, vocally and harmonically, as Mitchell's Christian Singers (an earlier Hammond find), the Golden Gate foursome have one trick all their own. In story-songs-which their best ones are-the narrator is Willie Johnson, who always wanted to be a preacher. When the time comes for Baritone Johnson to narrate, the quartet rhythmically deploys, slapping and tapping the while, closes ranks after he steps up to the microphone. Besides their manual and pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most...