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...theatergoers remember Elisabeth Welch, who introduced Charleston in the 1923 musical Runnin ' Wild? Or Adelaide Hall, who introduced I Can 't Give You Anything but Love in Blackbirds of 19281 Never mind. Black Broadway brings them both back anew for a three-week run at Man hattan's Town Hall. The revue, an out growth of a concert at last year's Newport Jazz Festival, is an amiable, loosely strung hit parade of black musical entertainment from the first half of the century...
...most successful restaurateurs in the U.S. Starting with a $2,000 investment in ten Coke machines in 1949, Ellman built up a thriving vending-machine and cafeteria business that he sold for $50,000 in 1958. He then sank the proceeds into a modest Man hattan steak house. He redecorated it in dude-ranch western, renamed it the Cattleman, promoted it fiercely with various gimmicks, including free stage coach rides for the kiddies. The weekly gross quintupled, from $12,000 to $60,000, within a year and a half...
...Vienna Philharmonic is 125 years old this year, and so is the .New York Philharmonic. Last week at Man hattan's Philharmonic Hall, the festivities merged as New York began its fall season by vacating the stage to the Viennese. In the Green Room at intermis sion, New York's Leonard Bernstein (who guest-conducted Beethoven's Leonora Overture No. 3 at the concert) embraced Vienna's Karl Bohm and wondered aloud whether the two orches tras might not be brother or sister...
...Novelist Elliott comes out swinging against a wide variety of targets, ranging from sex cultists to the high priests of New Criticism. The most devastating of his 15 essays, Who Is We?, concerns the 107 (Elliott's count) grand poohbahs who dominate the U.S. cultural scene from Man hattan's Morningside Heights area. They are the "Diors and Schiaparellis of intellectual fashion design," in Elliott's phrase, and include Eric Bentley, Jacques Barzun, Lionel and Diana Trilling. "What they think today," says he, "you're apt to find yourself, in a Sears, Roebuckish way, sort...
ALONG Man hattan's Madison Avenue, admen have long divided life into two philosophical systems: the hard sell and the soft sell. To Charles Hendrickson Brower, 58, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), shambling president of Batten, Barton' Durstine & Osborn, "there is no such thing as the hard sell or the soft sell. There is only the smart sell and the stupid sell." Charlie Brewer's smart sell, last week, was the hottest sell in the ad world...