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...dull for words or too rich for the censor. And since good music is seldom enough to make up for a bad story, the smart moviemaker tries to strengthen his corn section with a couple of side men. In this case, the added attractions are Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who have a ball and save the show...
...Puccini. Moving on to Italy, she popped up at Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto Music Festival. Commented she, after an exhausting Requiem: "Verdi must have hated sopranos!" She also belted out On the Sunny Side of the Street in an impromptu fill-in appearance for ailing Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong (TIME, July 6). Among the raves that she collected was one from Jazz Trombonist Trummy Young: "That girl is just wasting her talents with the longhairs...
...Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 33, in a Manhattan hospital after "corrective surgery," presumably aimed at readying her for long-delayed motherhood; Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 59, bedded in Spoleto, Italy with pneumonia aggravated by "chronic emphysema" (overstretched lung tissues) ; Presidential Press Secretary James
Caught in his shorts by a Swedish photographer, portly Jazzman Louis Armstrong, his anger largely mock, responded with a Marquess of Queensberry pose most likely to invite a snappy right cross. Later, somewhat more warmly garbed, Satchmo grabbed horn and handkerchief, strutted from his dressing room to wow 3,000 cats in frosty (45° below zero), far-off Umea (pop. 17,000) with a rafter-ringing set of fine old stomping tunes...
...Satchmo:The Musical Autobiography of Louis Armstrong (Decca, 4 LPs). This lushly packaged, $20 salute to the most influential jazz soloist of them all traces his long career from the shouting, heavily riffed style he learned from Joe Oliver in his Chicago days (Dipper Mouth Blues, High Society) to the high, singing lyricism of the late '20s and early '30s, admirably illustrated in one of his own alltime favorites: On the Sunny Side of the Street. Most of the numbers, recorded at the end of 1956, are replays of records Louis cut between...