Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Togetherness' model homes seemed to be coming apart at the foundations. Pomades of publicity once hymned the Liberace family devotion, but last year Pianist Lee and Fiddler-Manager George split up. Last week, from the $100,000 mansion with the Knabe-shaped swimming pool, Mom joined in, said it was impossible for her to watch either son's performances while they were estranged. "Lee lives in Palm Springs most of the time," sniffed Frances Liberace, "surrounded by a gang of hillbillies and freeloaders. He is too trusting. He doesn't know who his true friends...
...could miss for a moment that for all her arm-flinging antics, Dorothy can really play. There are those who insist that she is not the best female jazz pianist in the U.S., but while it soaked up her lyric black magic last week the crowd at the Embers would have been willing to argue...
Bream himself turns out to be an exceedingly serious and intense young man. He has a near-flawless technique and a fine rhythmic sense. He elicits from his lute a wide variety of timbres and articulations, and phrases carefully--virtues he shares with Segovia, his teacher. Originally a pianist, he now divides his time between the lute and the guitar. It is only a shame that such a splendid artist cannot devote his full time to each...
Marie O'Hara is pretty, and Colin, her escort, is falling-down drunk, so it is only natural for the nightclub pianist who is the nameless narrator-hero of this novel to offer help. Even as the trio sways "like a chorus line" through the nighttime streets of North London, the pianist feels drawn to the girl beyond the call of gentlemanly duty. When Marie invites him upstairs for a meal a few days later, his mind fairly boils with mingled hopes and doubts. For though "there was once a time, a golden age, when such an invitation could...
Thereafter Colin is less the third member of a triangle than one of humanity's eternal albatrosses. Broke, drunk, homeless, he is "a kind of unconscious missionary" who, by sponging on the lovers mercilessly, gives his victims a chance to show their better nature. When the pianist finally proposes to Marie in a railroad dining car, Colin is still there-up front with the detective who is arresting him for petty thievery. But it seems unlikely that either wedding bells or prison cells will succeed in keeping those socks off Marie's clothesline...