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...Maynard Smith, the latest interpreter of this great event, is a canon emeritus of Gloucester Cathedral, but he writes as a historian first and an Anglican second. Henry's history has been finecombed by eminent scholars of the past generation (notably the Englishman A. F. Pollard and the American R. B. Merriman),and Canon Smith has no advantage over them in sources or in scholarship. From the vantage point of the mid-20th Century, however, he can see more ironies than they could in the Reformation carried out by bluff King...
Last week, the Three Flames-Pianist Roy Testamark, Guitarist George ("Tiger") Haynes and Bull Fiddler Averill ("Bill") Pollard-who seem to create their special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during...
...Flames, Testamark and Pollard, had once played alongside a glum guitarist who stared lifelessly into the innards of his guitar. A woman in the audience asked him, "What you got in there-dirty pictures?" After that, the Flames started looking for a new third. Two years ago, they found a bearded West Indian named Tiger Haynes ("he's a frantic guy"), and stole him from a trio called Plink, Plank and Plunk...
...stage neophyte are good for laughs, and there are some funny scenes about moviemaking, in which she is stoutly abetted by William Demarest as a director, by Constance Collier as a high-nosed old ham actress, and by such old masters of journeyman slapstick as Chester Conklin and Snub Pollard. There is some faint hint of the toughness of the people who made the old movies, and a fair suggestion of the way they did their work, like children making up games as they went along...
Ever since she was "in the primer," honey-blonde Mattie Lou Pollard, 14, has gone to the same one-room schoolhouse near Thomaston, Ga. Her teacher at Sunnyside School had work on her hands, taking care of 34 boys & girls, eight grades and all subjects. But somehow the teacher, Mrs. George Phillips, had time to do right by Mattie Lou. Last week at the National Press Club in Washington, with mother and teacher looking on, Mattie Lou won the Scripps-Howard 20th National Spelling Bee, a $500 prize and a trip to New York. Said pleased-as-punch Schoolmarm Phillips...