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Recognition has been a long time in coming to Negro Composer Howard Swanson, 42. Swanson knew at the age of nine that he wanted to be a musician, but he was 21 before he was able to begin well-rounded training. Working nights in a post office to support his family, he managed to put himself through the Cleveland Institute of Music. He won a fellowship to study composition in Paris. When the Germans took over, he fled to Spain, then returned to the U.S. and a routine job with the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He went on composing...
...Deacons nipped Leverett 2 to 1 on a last minute score by Bill Clapp. Roger Swanson tallied the first Kirkland goal to help hand the Bunnies their second defeat in two days...
Married. Michelle Bridgit Farmer, 19, up & coming actress (the French film, Monte Carlo Baby), daughter of tireless stage & screen Siren Gloria Swanson and her fourth husband, Michael Farmer; and Robert Amon, 37, Turkish-born Paris moviemaker; in Paterson...
...Webb plays the part so delightfully that he is even able to raise some hopes for the play. But the play grows increasingly harried and hack. And though David Niven does a nice job as the lover, Ratoff brings hobnail direction to scenes that need dancing pumps. Actress Swanson, in an all-things-to-both-men role, is of no help whatever to either...
Nina (adapted by Samuel Taylor from a play by Andre Roussin) created something of a ruckus before reaching Broadway. Gloria Swanson, who plays the title role, snarled publicly at Gregory Ratoff's direction, sneered at the play and threatened to quit. On Broadway the play itself should cause much less stir. It can best be described as very French in plot, and not nearly French enough in manner...