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...while they stay aloof. This explains why it was noted with pleasure that on the wedding night, with bride and groom safely off on the first leg of their honeymoon, the Queen showed up at Lady Elizabeth Shakerley's "do" at Claridge's and danced to Lester Lanin, while her sister Princess Margaret arranged a couple of chairs, put up her feet and, according to a waiter, "had a good rest." It also shows why Princess Anne could have appeared the next day at a Royal Navy ceremonial and apologized: "Please excuse me if I sound somewhat different...
...Lester Lanin, society orchestra leader: "I very seldom fail to play the wedding of a girl whose coming-out we've played. Then she becomes chairman of a charity ball and engages us. They're loyal, the social element in this country...
LANNING'S VERSION of the Bilbao Song, a favorite of every dance band leader from Phil Spitalny to Lester Lanin, has style, good pacing, and impressive delivery, as does Hal Watters' interpretation of "Johnny's Song" from Johnny's Johnson. The high point of the first act, however, is the company's performance of "As You Make Your Bed," from Mahagonny, a bitter comment on the rise of Nazism. "Progress," with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner '40, is a humorous, entertaining comment on the American economy which gets a good audience reaction...
...Hair repertory is Nina Simone, whose soulful Ain't Got No/ I Got Life for a time was the top pop hit in Britain. Last month, the gospel-oriented Staple Singers came out with a lively version of Aquarius in "soul-folk." Peter Duchin, Barbra Streisand, Lester Lanin and Nelson Riddle have all taken Hair to heart. Next, Lawrence Welk...
...kind words for Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles de Gaulle, and Goldwater supporters. "I think it's time that the Lawrence Welk people had their say," wrote O'Hara. "The Lester Lanin and Dizzy Gillespie people have been on too long. When the country is in trouble, like war kind of trouble, man, it is the Lawrence Welk people who can be depended upon...