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...street musicians are vagabonds of the spirit. A few, like Baird and the Spaeths, are literal vagabonds as well, carried by caprice along informal circuits of such cities as Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans and Key West. A folk quartet called the Nee Ningy Band has also covered Africa and Western and Eastern Europe during its ten-year career. Consisting of fiddle, harmonica, bodhran (a flat goatskin drum) and penny whistle, the group takes its name from the sound the fiddle makes-nee ningy, nee ningy, nee ningy. Its members carry camping equipment, often stay in local homes. Says...
...some aspect of her acting that casts Twiggy, nee Lesley Hornby, in those Roaring Twenties roles? Or is it the same features that made her Britain's trendy fashion model a decade ago: her boyish charm? Twiggy was a kind of '20s bopper in The Boy Friend eight years ago. Now she is a genuine flapper in There Goes the Bride. Co-Star Tommy Smothers plays an addled adman who cracks his head on a door and hallucinates enough to dawdle with the Twiggy of the '20s, whose picture he was about to use in an advertising...
Grantham, a market town of 28,000 in Lincolnshire, has three claims to fame: the 281-ft. spire of St. Wulfram's Church is the third highest in England, Sir Isaac Newton went to school there, and Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts) was born and raised in an apartment over her family's grocery store at the corner of North Parade and Broad streets...
...world of rock and roll that made such bands as the Talking Heads, the Clash and Elvis Costello and the Attractions possible, and jolted Mick Jagger and his Old Masters into renewal. The Pistols have left rock and roll to the others; Sid Vicious is dead, and Johnny Lydon (nee Rotten), in light of his recent efforts with Public Image, Ltd., might as well be. All that remains is a movie, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, due for release this summer, which promises, if nothing else, the usual bathukolpian prodigies of director Russ Meyer...
DIED. Elizabeth Hadley Mowrer, 87, the first of Ernest Hemingway's four wives; in Lakeland, Fla. Mowrer (nee Richardson) and Hemingway were married in 1921. Five years later, he divorced her to marry Fashion Writer Pauline Pfeiffer. Remorseful, the novelist dedicated The Sun Also Rises to "Hadley," assigned her its royalties, and wrote fondly of her and their one child "Bumby" in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. In 1933 Hadley married Paul Scott Mowrer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning foreign correspondent and later editor of the Chicago Daily News...