Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Straw Hat...
...Newport Jazz Festival is an event of which the citizens of Rhode Island are proud, so it's only natural that on Thursday night the Festival was opened by a public official. In his remarks, Sen. Claiborne Pell tipped his hat to the Festival ("it has become a custom, a delightful institution"), dragged in the Russians (jazz "has penetrated the Iron Curtain and permeated the world better and more effectively than most of our voices have in Washington"), and called his colleague, Sen. Green, "the grandfather of jazz," whatever that means. Then Pell stepped down, and the music began...
...York's Freedomland, so far a financial disaster (to the tune of some $5,000,000 per annum), has now surrounded its stagecoach and paddle-wheel steamers with some $3,000,000 worth of traditional hold-onto-your-hat rides. "Basically there are only two rides: up and down, or around-but you've got to have them to make a living in this business," says Freedomland Vice President Art Moss. Freedomland's latest include a monorail roller coaster imported from Germany, a Space Whirl featuring bumper cars which can also whirl like dervishes at 100 r.p.m...
...adds: "I know my duty!" Occasionally she exceeds it. In a scene that is mercifully brief, no doubt at the insistence of the R.S.P.C.A., Actress Rutherford actually dares to ride a horse-to avoid confusion in this episode, it is helpful to remember that the heroine wears the hat. And later on she ventures to do the twist-she does it perhaps not wisely but quite well and with a massive enthusiasm that may remind some spectators of an earnest rhinoceros rubbing its backside on a tree trunk...
Hitchcock deserves his award. The Busy Martyr is welcome relief from much of the insipid summer fare often presented at straw hat theaters, and is well worth a trip to Medford...