Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piano solos. For sugar-spinning, the band has a symphonic wind section (bassoon, oboe, French horn, English horn and clarinet) which Elliot calls a Woodwindtette. Says he: "We're trying to get more classical sounds. That way we get a sort of purple mood. Overseas the kids loved wild razzmatazz. But now they're back, they want sweet music. They just want to put their arm around their gal friend and romance slowly. Let's not kid ourselves, that's why they like my band...
...composer, the small stature of his colleagues had something to do with it. His technical competence far outshone his inventiveness. His first popular success, El Salon Mexico (1936), was full of Mexican folk tunes. He borrowed folk and hymn themes for his ballet scores (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) and his movie music (Our Town). The Third Symphony, which Boston heard last week, varied from tenderness to brassy choirs which led a Boston Post critic to call it "Shostakovich in the Appalachians...
...moneymakers, he is not interested in having them used for nonprofitable study. Meanwhile, he vigorously runs down and prosecutes "pirates." A few old Chaplin comedies made for Keystone, Essanay and Mutual studios are being shown to Museum visitors, but post-1918 Chaplin-produced pictures (including Shoulder Arms and The Kid) are taboo...
...Whether because of the fan and exhibitor furor about his C.O. status, or because of his 22 months Pacific service as a noncombatant Medical Corps sergeant and chaplain's assistant, the Ayres face and screen personality have undergone a startling change. With little remaining resemblance to the confused kid of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), or even to brash young Dr. Kildare, Actor Ayres now looks and acts every one of his 37 years...
...Count had a pat explanation for his stockpile of dollars. He said he had been a bootlegger in the U.S. during Prohibition, and was known as "Kid Tiger" (or was it "The Frog...