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...Playwright Maxwell Anderson, were working on in New City, N.Y., when Weill died of a heart attack at the age of 50. The five songs Weill completed for Huckleberry were locked away and all but forgotten for 14 years. Finally, Lys Symonette, Weill's former secretary and rehearsal pianist, and Broadway Conductor Milton Rosenstock resurrected the musical remains of Huckleberry, with the idea of molding it into a half-hour TV show. Several U.S. producers turned down the idea, so this spring Mrs. Symonette approached Heinz Scheiderbauer, Vienna's leading independent TV film maker, who leaped...
Died. Leopold Mannes, 64, co-inventor of Kodachrome film, a concert pianist who, with Fellow Musician Leopold Godowsky, spent his free hours trying to develop a high-quality, easy-to-use color film, after 20 years of experimenting came up with the first three-color transparency in 1935, an invention they sold to Eastman Kodak, thereby ushering in photography's golden era; of a stroke; in Martha's Vineyard, Mass...
...COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT (Decca) is an album by Pianist Peter Duchin, Eddy's son, and his smoothly swinging band, which was launched two years ago at Manhattan's St. Regis, and has since played the frug for Luci Johnson in the White House. He plays pieces like Days of Wine and Roses and The Party's Over on the hesitating side, and sheathes Mack the Knife in satin...
...signed "Mother, Daddy and Lynda." But they needn't have worried. For each of her two drawling but nonchalant narrations of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf at Michigan's Interlochen Music Camp, Luci Baines Johnson, 17, drew three curtain calls when she performed with Pianist Van Cliburn, 30, who conducted the camp's 150-member student orchestra. Whatever criticism Luci Baines is going to get (and under the circumstances, it will scarcely be fanged), will come when her version of the Russian fairy tale is beamed back whence it came, via the Voice of America...
...Trombonist Robert ("Cutty") Cutshall; Trumpeters John ("Yank") Lawson, Henry ("Red") Allen, Joseph ("Wingy") Manone; Drummer Arthur ("Zutty") Singleton; Clarinetists Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, Michael ("Peanuts") Hucko; Bandleader Wood-row ("Woody") Herman; Pianist Willie ("The Lion") Smith...