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...without his consent. "What's the difference," he demanded, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Once he decided to give a concert honoring Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly for political favors, and "suggested" to 23 bandleaders, including Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring. Tommy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, that they bring their orchestras to Chicago at their own expense. They all came, and with them the orchestras of three national radio networks...
...principals (Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway) who starred in it on Broadway, Lady captivated most of the city's captious critics (said the Times: "A musical comedy of the first water"), who often delight in panning U.S. productions. Afterward, temperamental, triumphant Actor Harrison, escorted by Cinemactress Wife Kay Kendall, gamely offered a limp hand to a wellwisher...
Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, started on the project with Librettist Lewis Allan three years ago, finished the vocal score and 350 pages of orchestration before his death of leukemia last December at the age of 35. His good friend Hershy Kay completed the orchestration from Kurka's red-penciled notes. Loose-jointed and episodic, the opera introduces Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from...
...Peppers" (with Kay Walsh and Martita Hunt), a red-wigged song-and-dance team have a dressing-room brawl and on-stage run-in with the orchestra maestro--and while the curtain comes down the show goes...
...Cornell, Tim Gallwey, playing at first singles, easily defeated Floyd Downs 6-0, 6-3. Second man, Fred Vinton, who normally plays the sixth singles position, lost to Kay Champion 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 in a hard-fought match...