Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton weekend brings with it a variety of House Dances. Adams House presents the "Tiger's Tale" with Ken Hamilton's Orchestra and the Historic Jazz Band. Eliot features "The Princeton Triangle Revue Show," with Jeff Carleton's Orchestra. Kirkland's "Tiger Rag" has Princeton's Own Minstrels, the Joe Abbott Quintet, and asorted folk singers...
Whether Robinson's parade of big names can come near to sustaining a Bergman level of virtuosity for a full season is a question of performance. Two weeks ago Robinson came close to failure with The Jazz Singer, starring Jerry Lewis. But Producer Robinson has a reputation for imagination and drive, carved as program boss of CBS, a job he held for a dozen years, until last summer. It was Robinson who patiently brought along young producers and writers, prodded them to "think offbeat," helped develop such CBS shows as Playhouse go, See It Now, Twentieth Century...
...investigation widens, enters the caves of Negro London, from the lichenous flat of Tribal Chieftain Horace Big Cigar to Tulip's, a jazz club where a superbly directed, superbly erotic dance explores the universal rhythm of the Negro race. Whom did Sapphire know before she crossed the color line? One Negro girl is ready to tell, says: "I hated that high-yellow doll"; Sapphire had stolen her man. The police find him, a Negro bishop's son with a Mayfair manner and an Oxford accent. Had the bishop's boy ever intended marriage with Sapphire? Good heavens...
Backed by a seven-man jazz combo, Singer Montand could demolish the hipster with a shuddering shimmy in Le Fanatique de Jazz or evoke the world of the provincial music hall in Un Garcon Dansait with a frozen smile and agitated feet. The display of vocal and athletic virtuosity lasted through 20 numbers (during which Montand sweated off two pounds), and at the end the audience was shouting for more...
Philip Marlowe (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Writer Raymond Chandler's durable private eye seems tough enough to survive even the indignities of television. Smoothly done a la Peter Gunn, far-out jazz...