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Joplin's libretto has a big subject (how the Negro can improve himself) but an oversimplified solution (education). Its language is embarrassingly laden with darky dialect ("Aunt Dinah has blowed de horn,/And we'll go home to stay until dawn"). There are enough voodoo heavies, cavorting bears and right-thinking preachers to tax any producer's ingenuity...
Carbon monoxide concentrations from smoking, of course, do not reach the fatal levels found in a closed garage where a car engine has been left running. Still, a P.H.S. panel headed by Dr. Daniel Horn reported evidence of surprisingly high monoxide levels in smoke-filled rooms. The acceptable maximum in most industrial situations is 50 parts of carbon monoxide to 1,000,000 parts of air. A roomful of cigarette smokers, investigators found, raise the carbon monoxide content to between 20 and 80 p.p.m...
...Harrison's portion of the concert, he managed to eschew the almost obligatory jam session of the greats format, and instead chose to weld the twenty or so guest artists, horn section and all, into a band tight enough to make Chicago sound like Cream. The importance of Harrison's move should not be underestimated. If it's at all indicative of a new trend, the rock conert will undergo a radical change...
...critics ever earned their bite as honestly as Sargeant. A child prodigy, he conducted a symphony orchestra at age ten, later spent six years as a violinist and horn player with several orchestras under a succession of conductors: Walter Damrosch, Willem Mengelberg, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Arturo Toscanini, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter and Clemens Krauss. Sargeant also composed music for modern dance groups and orchestrated Broadway shows, turned to critical writing at the Brooklyn Eagle, TIME, LIFE, and, in 1949, The New Yorker. Last week, at 68, Sargeant announced that at this season's end he will give up his aisle...
...then turning to await the gibes. "That looks like Roddy McDowall's diving-board cover," Carson will say of a white jumpsuit trimmed in rhinestones. Or, of a suede and satin set of Western threads, "I wouldn't wear that to fondle Randolph Scott's saddle horn...