Word: maestro
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...brilliant revue, As Thousands Cheer, Berlin played a new number for him. It sounded terrible. Hart asked him to play it again. It sounded even more terrible. Hart thought a moment, then asked him to play Always. One of Berlin's most successful ballads, Always, played by the maestro, was virtually unrecognizable. "I thought so," Hart said. The new number later turned out to be Heat Wave, one of the hits of the year...
Divorced. By Xavier Cugat, 51, Spanish-born rumba maestro: Bandleader Lorraine Allen Cugat, 29; after five years of marriage, two years of court wrangles (she got a divorce last January in Santa Monica, Calif., which won't be final for a year), no children; in Las Vegas...
...direct approach is usually best-meaning it's generally better than folksy, whimsical or cute stuff . . . Only a genuine old maestro can be whimsical or cute in print without making the average reader want to paste him in the snoot...
Puccini: La Bohème (Licia Albanese, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 4 sides LP). This recording of the Maestro's 1946 broadcast will make opera fans regretfully aware of how seldom they hear a first-rate performance of Bohème. Toscanini, who conducted the world premiere in 1896, gives it a rare force, clarity and subtlety. The singers are all in fine voice-including amateur Baritone Toscanini, whose hoarse old bawling can be clearly heard accompanying the principals in several passages. Recording: excellent. A new recording of Tosco, (Cetra-Soria...
...Foundation President Paul Hoffman, Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge and Kansas Senator Frank Carlson were out on the campaign trail. Television's Tex McCrary was roaming the mountains and valleys with a troop of entertainers, which included Tony Lavelli, onetime Yale basketball star (he shoots baskets at rallies), Maestro Fred Waring, Entertainers Les Paul & Mary Ford. Tex's wife, Jinx Falkenburg, was there ("as a wife & mother") to decorate the scene...