Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood could never cast Columnist Joseph Wright Alsop Jr. in its stock role of the slouch-hatted, wisecracking newsman. He does not look the part, and he was not brought up to play it. Instead of the rough-&-tumble school of the police beat, he went to Groton and Harvard, where he wandered around with volumes of Proust and Joyce under his arm and thought politics beneath discussion. His silk shirts and tailored suits are as out of character as his high-pitched "ah there" voice. He exudes a cultivated and imperious...
Lilac for Liszt. Eileen gave her audience of prosperous, dressed-up miners the works. She recalled her father's rebuke when she returned from Europe once before, full of Beethoven concertos. When she was unable to play his favorite Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, he had muttered "All your schoolin's bin wasted." This time, in Boulder's city hall, she gave them, among other things, Liebestraum, the "Moonlight...
Break for a Girl. Eileen has not forgotten how she got her start. Years ago, when she was in a Perth convent, a priest brought Composer-Pianist Percy Grainger to hear her play. Grainger, in turn, fetched the great German Pianist Wilhelm Back-haus, who was touring Australia. When Backhaus said that she must go to Leipzig to study, the miners passed the hat to send her. Now Eileen is looking around for another talented Australian girl who needs help. Says she: "This is a man's world, and a girl needs every break...
...Still way is scratching out only a few bars a day in his modest Los Angeles home. His great enthusiasm is opera: he has written four, but none has ever been published. One of them, Troubled Island, with a libretto adapted from a play by Poet Langston Hughes, was rejected by the Metropolitan, says Still, because it called for an all-Negro cast. "They never heard of makeup, I guess...
Actors' Equity has forbidden all its actors to play at the' National, Washington's only legitimate theater, after Aug. 1, unless the National opens its doors to Negroes. Last week the Federal Works Agency made another theater available: the old Belasco Theater,* now a storehouse for Treasury records. Likely proviso: the highest bidder must guarantee not to discriminate against Negroes...