Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to making the play live as possible. Especially engaging are Jerry Kilty as Trap Door, the scoundrel, and Robert Fletcher as Laxton, the lecher. Many of the minor characters are also amusing caricatures of London town-types; one of these is Jack Dapper, the fop, played by Nick Benton (who turns up again...
Mile runners are paced by the "Water-town Flash," Bert Maguire, who get the nick-name from his high school team-mates. He's done 4 minutes, 39 seconds against both Andover and R. I. recently...
...fort at Eddie Condon's 3rd Street hideaway, with Edmond Hall and Gene Schroeder in the band and Ralph Sutton working the intermissions. Buck Clayton, Joe Bushkis, and Art Tatum are at New York's new jazz spot. The Embers, 161 East 54th. Pea Wee Erwin is at Nick's, at 10th and Seventh, and Conrad Janis is at, Ryan's the last holdout of the once famous 52nd Street...
...fine ensemble ended a long stay at the Savoy last weekend, and Spanier's is a difficult act to follow. But the Spanier band was good because its members play well together, with well-integrated styles. Kaminsky seems to be a victim of the New York Condon's-Nick's melting pot of cacophony--where musicians of totally different schools of dixieland drift together for too brief a time to achieve the cohesiveness of harmony that makes for a great combination...
Divorced. By Elizabeth Taylor, 18, cinemactress: Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 24; after seven months of marriage, two of separation; in Los Angeles...