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...extraordinary miscellany of New York's night life, no club can touch the Latin Quarter-no, not with a tenfoot pole, for sheer expensive tawdriness. Unlike the Copacabana, which concentrates on headliners (Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr.) and surrounds them with half a dozen pretty chorines and vegetation by Goodyear, the Latin Quarter spends its budget on quantity, on big casts, on halfway talents and halfway nudes. A fanfare brings out the girls-girls dressed in balloons, girls dressed in sequins, girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After...
...course, the first time that Joey Alfidi of Yonkers, N.Y. had conducted a symphony orchestra (he made his first major solo flight at seven with the Symphony of the Air), nor the first time he has played one of his numerous compositions. In Brussels, where he was introduced by his father as the "new little Mozart." he attracted a capacity crowd. As usual, he conducted incisively and with note-perfect memory of the scores. His own concerto strongly, if somewhat naively, reflected the influence of Beethoven, was studded with technical tricks that suggested a surprisingly wide knowledge of piano literature...
...addition to conducting, Joey plays half a dozen instruments, has written one symphony, eleven sonatinas, two sonatas, two piano concertos, two overtures, a tone poem, a rondo and a rhapsody. His problem just now is to determine whether he wants to be a composer, a conductor or a concert pianist. "Well," says Papa Alfidi calmly, "look at Lenny Bernstein. What...
Open End (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* Network viewers' first look at a shortened version of David Susskind's spontaneous speakeasies, with Joey Bishop, George Burns, Jimmy Durante, Buddy Hackett and Groucho Marx trying to get a word...
...York's Bob Turley and Bill Skowron, Milwaukee's Joey...