Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady & Barbershop Quartet. How could a show, blended with such fine old period pieces as a player piano, a sputtering mayor, a fat lady who dances, a plain-Jane librarian-even a redheaded lisping boy and a celluloid-dickeyed barbershop quartet-make the grade on coldhearted Broadway? Talent is only part of the answer. Many an able combination of stage talent has been hooted off the boards on opening night. In this case, there happened to be a just-right blending of first-rate talents...
...powerful. 260,000-member American Federation of Musicians, which has long laid down musicians' terms for the scoring of motion pictures in Hollywood, as well as most other commercial music, last week lost control of film scoring to an upstart splinter group headed by a studio trumpet player. In an election sponsored by the National Labor Relations Board. Hollywood's film musicians chose the rebel Musicians Guild of America as their bargaining agent, by a vote...
...they start acting like a bunch of cannibals." Still, the chairmen themselves were inclined to let Adams stew in the cauldron. Of the 42 attending the meeting, 13 thought that Adams ought to quit; twelve shakily supported Ike ("The coach has left him in. I'm a team player"); the remaining 17 were noncommittal...
Originally just a child's noisemaker, the pennywhistle is a 14-in. bit of metal tubing, drilled with six holes and flattened at one end for a mouthpiece. Though its natural range is one shrill octave, the seasoned player can squeeze out almost another octave. Like the New Orleans Negroes who once fused Dixieland from a great many different sources (including spirituals, marches, French and Spanish dance melodies), the penny whistlers began by imitating bagpipers and American jazz, with the occasional addition of native rhythms. To foreign ears the simple 4/4 tempo of pennywhistle jazz may seem repetitious...
...blandly hand Joe his hat and show him the door. Joe feels pretty foolish, but he feels worse than that when he comes to understand the crimes he has committed in the name of power. He has broken up his daughter's love match with a trumpet player, and let his wife put the girl (Diane Varsi) through what looks suspiciously like an abortion. He has twisted his son's life by forcing the boy (Ray Stricklyn) to give up his music and go to Yale. And he has wasted his own life by spending it with...