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Most radical change in the Philharmonic's ranks, the engagement of a new first trombonist named William Jack Satterfield, caused heated comment not only among Carnegie Hall's long hairs but throughout the music marts of Broadway's dance-band industry. No highbrow, Trombonist Satterfield, son of a West-Virginia farmer, is famed, not for symphonic and operatic tromboning, but for his hot riffs as a member of Raymond Paige's "Young Americans" and several well-known U.S. dance bands. Never before (except in the case of one obscure drum & cymbal player) had the august Philharmonic...
...poster trend has caught up many a well-known U.S. painter more accustomed to abstractions and highbrow symbolism, than to a simple realism. One such is Lawrence Beall Smith, whose poster of three children shadowed by a swastika (see cut) was released this week by Associated American Artists. Where the shadow comes from is an art problem that plain observers are left to guess. McKnight Kauffer's abstract Steel! Not Bread poster (see cut} would probably confuse even sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing...
Easiest explanation of the trouble is the war. The war, to be sure, has had a somewhat wavering effect on box office. (But no show has perished, save possibly the highbrow In Time to Come, which deserved to live.) The war has also had a slightly paralyzing effect on playwrights. Serious writers have found the world's present plight too big to cope with, yet only five out of 50-odd plays this season have tried to cope with it. Farces and comedies have flopped as fast, and been as feeble, as dramas, for the good reason that playwrights...
Completely uninfluenced by highbrow, esthetic theories and by the splashy Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles that then dominated French art, Painter Rousseau painted things he enjoyed: exotic, tropical jungles full of childishly round-eyed animals, portraits of his friends, wistful nudes reclining in imaginary, saladlike forest scenes...
...slips of paper sent up to him during "question period," Brown's favorite is one, submitted at the end of a very highbrow discourse, that read: "Will the speaker be so good as to give me Carmen Miranda's telephone number...