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...First Nighter, by Campana...
Whether, afterwards, those who got in had a clearer idea of Yes than those who did not, remained a moot point. Between the acts the spectators, if bewitched, were also pretty bothered and bewildered. Said one first-nighter solemnly: "It's something you have to digest." Said another: "I don't try to understand it; I'm an old Saroyan man myself." But on at least one point a dowager was quite firm: "The love interest is very dull, indeed very dull, certainly very dull indeed...
Training on Trains. In his younger days in London, Hitch was an insatiable first-nighter, a sort of rolling encyclopedia of stage lore. Another consuming interest was transportation. He could tell any Thamesside character who would listen the tonnage, type and country of every craft on the Thames. He loves to ride on trains, and two of his best pictures (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes} have thrill ing train sequences...
Besides his favorite artists Crowninshield is ready to pay fond tribute to the late great Architect Stanford White, to the old Waldorf, to the full-rigged hostess of the 1900s, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. He is an accomplished toastmaster, cotillon leader, bon vivant who neither drinks nor smokes, first-nighter, balletomane, golfer, bridge player, cat enthusiast, and clubman (Union, Knickerbocker). He once hired Dorothy Parker to write for him on the strength of one line she produced in an advertising agency ("Brevity is the soul of lingerie...
...same time it's sufficiently simple to arouse the interest of the tyro. Finally, it's been a very good build-up for what's going to happen tonight on the Network. Earl Hines will be down there from 7:30 to 8:00 (prior to doing a one-nighter at Paul Revere Hall). The "Father," who will be interviewed by jazz critic George Frazier, plans to speak on some fundamentals of jazz piano, demonstrating them in his own style. Art Hyman and Rupe Wright will be eating it up, and this wouldn't be a bad idea...