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Kismet (Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow and other members of the original cast; Columbia LP). A musical précis of the current Broadway idea of an Arabian night, featuring such popular songs as Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Stranger in Paradise and a couple of deft patter numbers. The music was culled from the work of Alexander Borodin, the 19th century Russian composer, by Robert Wright and George Forrest...
...Outside the station Ike was greeted by a 21-gun salute, another blast of frigid air, and a warmly friendly reception. In Confederation Square, 50,000 Canadians started a polite, gloved pitter-patter of applause, with an occasional, highly proper cry of "hey, hey" (cheering is considered improper in austere Ottawa). After he placed a wreath of red carnations and white chrysanthemums on the Cenotaph, Canada's war memorial, Ike joined Mamie and the Governor General in an open Cadillac, tucked a lap robe around their knees and rode off through the city to Rideau Hall, the Governor General...
Like most patter merchants, Danish-born Victor Borge sometimes indulges in very corny gags and in rather too-cute remarks. There are even moments when he does nothing more than play the piano agreeably. But with his full kit of comedy tools, he not only blends words and music, but mixes satire with nonsense, the irrelevant with the irreverent. And if what he does begins to pall a little, there is still a genuine fascination in how he does...
...with high officials, and quiet days of writing in the English countryside. In rented morning dress ($5.88) and topper ($1.12), Stevenson bustled off to a Buckingham Palace garden party, met Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret, with whom he had a "delightful conversation." An enthusiastic patter of applause came from the British press, including a left-handed compliment from the Manchester Guardian that he was not at all like the movie-type American. "His tie is quiet, his aspect unhurried ... He speaks without an aggressively American accent...
Told in the first person with a fine ear for shopgirl patter, Westward the Sun (a Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer choice) is clearly aimed at readers with hammocks up and guards down...