Word: hepness
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...hesitant, finally motionless, baton of Conductor Norman Del Mar. After running wild until shortly before midnight, Satchmo, on hand as a guest artist to fill out, not ruin, the Philharmonic, loped off stage while a flustered impresario temporarily confiscated his trumpet to prevent an all-night encore. But the hep types filling Royal Festival Hall screamed and stomped for more. (One of the most insistent: the rock-'n'-rolling Duke of Kent.) Unable to calm the wild beasts in order to start the finale, Maestro Del Mar and his boys straggled into the wings. To the more mystified...
...extends all the way from Patrick Henry to Disk Jockey Lee ("Three-D Lee-D") Dorris, who last week was hired to plug the candidacy of Cayce L. Pentecost for Public Utilities Commissioner of Tennessee. A sample of Dorris' exposition of Pentecost's merits: "Greetings, all you hep cats, gators, lame janes and dream queens. This is Lee D speelin' at you about a real gone cat from Goneville, Cayce L. Pentecost, a real boogie in the know. He's no square from Chicago. Cayce Pentecost is my man's name; by square-dealing...
...memorable Super Attraction was the wedding the Felds threw in 1951 for Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Negro singer who warbles spirituals with a howling hep-cat beat. The Felds took over Washington's Griffith Stadium for the ceremony, for which 20,000 people paid from 90¢ to $2.50. The big spectacle included $5,000 worth of fireworks displays of a duck laying eggs, a naval battle, and of Sister Rosetta herself. The Superfelds, whose bookings now range from Charleston, S.C. to Pittsburgh, also have sponsored more conventional types of entertainment, e.g., Guy Lombardo, Billy Eckstine, George Shearing, and such road...
...much enhanced by a polished production. Treating of the Long Island rich, it is also romantic comedy about a young lady with three suitors. The young lady (Margaret Sullavan) is a chauffeur's daughter, brought up among two of her swains, and now back home, chic and socially hep, after working five years in Paris. Which man Sabrina wants is clear enough, but there is a family problem about his marrying beneath him, and a personal problem, since he does not want to marry...
...most of its 20 years, Chicago's bi-weekly Down Beat has been strictly a hep-cat's magazine. But last year, after due deliberation, its editors decided that classical music was becoming entirely too popular to be ignored, decided to start reporting it.* This week, in a candid imitation of its own annual polls of pop music favorites, Down Beat published the results of its first survey of classical favorites. Excerpts...