Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Scott was impressed, promised Cardus the top music spot. But Cardus, never robust, suffered a breakdown. To get him out in the fresh air, the paper sent him to cover the first postwar (1919) cricket matches at the Old Trafford field. He hit a century, and the Guardian appointed him regular "Cricketer...
...dance also raised temperatures at the Holland Music Festival, where Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham & company last week presented her torrid Caribbean Rhapsody. The Dutch had never seen anything quite like her. Dancer Dunham did not wear a pearl in her navel (as she did in Tropical Revue), but some of the audience were nevertheless overcome by all the pelvic commotion, hesitated in bewilderment before applauding. Most of the audience, however, got the idea: they were seeing precise dancing and brilliant choreography. The Dutch critics were two-minded about her. Wrote one: "Mostly it is sheer vitality, but sometimes sheer corn...
Died. Walt Kuhn, 68, "the Rembrandt of Show Business," painter of vaudeville and circus subjects (The Blue Clown); after long illness; in White Plains, N. Y. A champion of modern art ("Good painters are never intellectuals; they're simply people with one-track minds"), Kuhn helped run the famed 1913 Armory Show, which introduced the U.S. to Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse...
...Steal (RKO Radio) is a melodrama with some real assets: 1) it was handsomely photographed against handsome Mexican backgrounds; 2) it has one of the fastest and longest chases of the current season; 3) it never once pauses long enough to draw a serious breath...
...married (they are not). Fans also want to know the origin of Tarzan's child (he was found in the jungle, of course), and how Tarzan and Jane happen to be living together in a tree house without benefit of clergy. Says Producer Lesser, loftily: "It has never been suggested that Tarzan and Jane share the same...