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...With Waller and Johnson, he soon reigned over the local circuit of speakeasies, raucous rent parties and all-night "carving contests," in which pianists, cheered on by audiences that included many musicians, pulled out their full bag of tricks in attempts to top each other. "Those fellows," says Cornetist Rex Stewart, "were the inspiration of most of the guys on the New York scene, many of whom became greats in the swing world -Benny Carter, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman...
...tale was given its first great artistic shaping by Sophocles, whose dramatization remains the best known. Although his Antigone concludes the story presented in Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colouns, it was written before the other two; it is, in fact, the next-to-earliest of his surviving works. Early or not, it is a supreme master-piece, fully deserving of the first prize that it copped; and it contains a higher proportion of lyric writing than any of his other works...
...HONEY POT. Rex Harrison plays a voluptuary who lives a vita that is incredibly dolce until Director Joseph Mankiewicz's sourly satirical plot takes over...
...HONEY POT. Rex Harrison plays a voluptuary who lives a vita that is incredibly dolce until Director Joseph Mankiewicz's sourly satirical plot takes over...
...HONEY POT. Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz has modernized Ben Jonson's wryly wily miser, Volpone, for the contemporary talents of Rex Harrison, and makes up in witty dialogue what he loses in indecisive wavering between comedy and suspense...