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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jacob Homer, 96, last survivor of General George A. Custer's historic 7th Regiment, which was massacred at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876; of pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak. A New Yorker who jo:ned the Army to see the West, he survived the battle because he was not there-there weren't enough horses to go around, and he had to stay behind when Custer made his last stand...
...part-time pen-in-hand set was busy churning out autobiographies. Sculptor Jo Davidson promised a limited edition of 74 signed copies at $50 each. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 35, decided it was time to tell his life story; so did Louis Armstrong, Ezio Pinza and Jessica Dragonette. Even Bobo Rockefeller was giving the matter serious thought. Among those who have reached the working title stage: Choreographer Agnes de Mille (Dance to the Piper); Princess lleana of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria (I Live Again); Society-Columnist Cobina Wright (/ Never Grew Up); and Actress Charlotte Greenwood (Never Too Tall...
Spain has bred more than its share of eminent modern artists, among them Picasso, Joán Miró, Juan Gris and Salvador Dali. But most of them have hotfooted it across the border to France almost as soon as they were old enough to carry their own easels. The artists who stayed behind seemingly found it difficult to forget Spain's great artistic past, and followed, without distinction, the traditions of El Greco, Velasquez and Goya...
...Sails in the Sunset (Mercury); When It's Springtime In the Rockies (Capitol). Driven into the ground by bandleaders and songsters of the '30s, these hardy shrubs seem to be sprouting again. Current cultivators: Frances Langford, Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae...
...along. The Rodgers score-which eschews exotic Bali-Hijinks-is thoroughly pleasant, with the gaiety of I Whistle a Happy Tune, the lilt of Getting to Know You, the marchlike verve of The Royal Siamese Children, which introduces to Anna and the audience a long procession of beguiling youngsters. Jo Mielziner's sets are gracefully evocative, Irene Sharaff's costumes steadily gorgeous. There is a delightful Jerome Robbins ballet-a daintily menacing Siamese version, all stylized and symbolic, of Uncle Tom's Cabin...