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...accompaniment to author, and commentator Oscar Levant in a special arrangement of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" student members of the orchestra from Harvard and nearby colleges planned to give a benefit for crippled children on April...
...letter yesterday R. L. Harlow, vice-president of the Yankee Network, stated that "the union has refused permission for the use of the Intercollegiate Orchestra as an accompaniment for Oscar Levant, who happens to be a member of the New York Union...
...summer of 1938 Radio Director Dan Golenpaul asked him to appear as a guest star on NBC's Information Please program. Levant astounded radio listeners by answering glibly and accurately the most abstruse musical questions the quizzers fired at him. Soon he was engaged as a regular feature, today enjoys a reputation as U. S. music's public brain...
Last week, Oscar Levant added one more to his long list of trades by publishing a book of gossip and reminiscence. Modestly entitled A Smattering of Ignorance (Doubleday, Doran, $2), Author Levant's book races bumptiously and gabbily through 267 pages of anecdote about the great, near great, and not-so-great of the music and cinema worlds, pats Toscaninis and Stokowskis on the back, mourns worshipfully at the late George Gershwin's shrine, analyzes the musical gifts of Harpo Marx and Charlie Chaplin, chats wittily and continuously about Oscar Levant...
...surprisingly, in his book, Quiz Champion Levant slips on many a fact. Sample boners: that Leopold Stokowski taught the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to play Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps in 1930 (famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler had done it five years before); that Harpo Marx tunes his harp backwards (Harpo's tuning, though unorthodox, is not backwards); that Toscanini cannot see the men in his orchestra (Toscanini, farsighted, can see quite well beyond six feet...