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...passengers and Beauty stranded on a brokendown bus in the middle of the desert--is no drawback in this case. The language of his characters is fast, vigorous, and funny, and the denouement is grotesquely original. In the cast, Fred Mueller as the Apache, Harry Bingham as the Hipster, James Rieger as the Poetman, and Earle Edgerton as the Tourist are superb caricatures, while Clare Fooshee and Mary MacGregor as Mrs. Kindhead and the Radcliffe student provided an equally amusing female contingent. There is a slightly grating moment when the Apache becomes too obviously a mouthpiece in declaring that this...
...longhairs' white ties and tails-played tricky syncopations and harsh tones that showed Swiss Composer Liebermann to be a close follower of Stan Kenton's jazz-style arrangements. The symphonic parts of the work were less exciting, but everybody, from the musicians onstage to the last hipster in the auditorium, had a fine time. Conductor Reiner, who started off his career as a percussionist, was so pleased that he took time off during a rehearsal for an impromptu jam session (see cut). Chicago News Critic Irving Sablosky welcomed the concert as a "meeting place ... for twelve-tone music...
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When they are working in combos, G.I. musicians are allowed to play the kind of music they themselves prefer. Since most of them are young draftees, musically well educated and hep as any hipster, their soldier audiences are treated to a repertory of numbers and arrangements more advanced than most Stateside bands would play for fear of scaring away cash audiences. But Army audiences also get the tunes they want, though sometimes in experimental arrangements. The tunes they wanted most last week were You Belong to Me, Why Don't You Believe Me?, Dancing on the Ceiling, Wish...
...hipster - one who is in the know