Word: played
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of his own life, there was time to carry it only through World War I before liver cancer killed him. Ironically, despite all the evidence of a lifetime's discipleship, Jones to the last wrote scathingly of disciples, insisting: "I have always been much too independent to play that part...
...tour in its history. The tour is also likely to go down as the most successful of all time. Opening its 17-nation tour in Athens in early August, Bernstein and the Philharmonic so moved the audience with Mozart's G-Major Piano Concerto that it had to play three encores, and a halt had to be called after Lenny explained: "We are very tired from a long plane flight." As he shuffled offstage, a Greek woman shouted: "A new god has come to Athens." Two days later, in Lebanon, the music chairman of the Baalbek Festival said...
...Trumpeter Miles Davis,* who years ago launched in New York what became known as "West Coast jazz," groups together some of jazzland's most gifted performers (Pianist Wynton Kelly, Alto Saxophonist Julian-"Cannonball"-Adderly, Drummer Jimmy Cobb, Bassist Paul Chambers, Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane), has rehearsed them to play an original repertory (jazzed-up ballads in classic form) with the cohesiveness of a chamber music ensemble...
SMELL-O-VISION MOVIE, produced by Mike Todd Jr. at cost of $2,000,000, will be premiered in Chicago by Christmas, then play at 25 to 40 U.S. movie houses, 40 abroad. Called Scent of Mystery, first film will come with machine to waft 40 smells to each seat in theater...
...Newcomer Britt's acting ability still remains to be proved, there is no question about the professional skill of longtime German Box Office Idol Jurgens. Though he is almost too handsome for the role of the petty-tyrannical high school teacher (played in the original by Emil Jannings), Jurgens subtly conveys the unavowed jealousy that flares up within him whenever he catches his students ogling Lola Lola. And at the film's climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies. Jurgens penetrates rare emotional...