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...Every child must have something to ignore/ And that's what parents were created for." So observed Ogden Nash, and as if in agreement, Mercer Mayer has produced Two More Moral Tales (Four Winds; $3.50). No adult is needed to explain these textless jokes about pigs who put on elaborate evening wear and then head for mud, or about a venal fox who sells fur coats that are still alive. The Chicken's Child, by Margaret A. Hartelius (Doubleday; $4.95) is similarly pictorial. A chicken accidentally hatches an alligator egg. The green baby thereupon eats corn, pies, wash...
...Duke Ellington Orchestra without the Duke? O.K. so you can't have everything. But Mercer Ellington, the Duke's son, is making a gallant attempt to recreate some of his father's stuff and from what I have heard, he is doing a good job of it. Check them out for $3 and $4 tonight at Sanders Theatre...
...hold out until Friday night, you can get a look at the Duke Ellington orchestra conducted by Duke's son Mercer at nearby Sanders Theatre...
...Harvard Summer School concert, with $4 and $3 seats, should be especially attractive to Duke's fans, because Mercer is in the process of changing the orchestra's repertoire to mostly Duke's old stands and a couple of lesser known Ellington varieties...
...bear to listen to myself," said Mabel Mercer on her 75th birthday. But every smart pop singer in the past 50 years has listened and learned from Mercer how to shape and pace a lyric. Her unique style of talking a song was developed to compensate for her failing soprano voice. Now, she says, "it's just a noise." Enough, however, to hold some 500 guests spellbound at her birthday party in Manhattan. Mabel's star pupil could not make the party, but he did not forget the singer who "taught me everything I know." Frank Sinatra sent...