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...best music performed by the best conductors, orchestras, and soloists, and clearly the Festival satisfies this requirement. The other is the equally important need of bringing music to the masses of the people frequently and at low prices, a condition abundantly fulfilled by the Stadium. But both of these topnotch institutions fall wretchedly short of one or the other goal...
Here, Nancy McCord was a most fortunate choice for the title role. It is no exaggeration to say that she is a full half of the show, with the energetic and appealing personality and the topnotch voice necessary to make the vivacious, French-Canadian Rose Marie La Flamme live on the stage. Her rendition of the "Indian Love Call" would have brought every brave from sixteen to sixty in the whole Five Nations to lay venison and beads at her feet. Singing opposite her in the role of Jim Kenyon, Alexander Grey is a somewhat lesser figure, but quite good...
...invasion as part of one of the funniest reels in film history. The picture as a whole, however, is not quite so hotchka as "Ninotcha." Where Garbo used a scalpel in her satirical analysis, Gable uses a sledge hammer. Despite its heavy-handed anti-Marxisms, though, "Comrade X" is topnotch comedy...
Besides being a finished jazz artist, Fats is a showman par excellence, and ranks with such topnotch colored entertainers as Bill Robinson, Eddie Anderson, and Louis Armstrong. Even Hughes Pannassie is forced to recognize Fat's insane sense of humor...
Waclaw Lednicki, distinguished scholar and critic who has just been appointed visiting lecturer, will be a valuable addition to Harvard's topnotch Slavic department. But his presence here raises two pertinent questions: (1) If Professor Ernest J. Simmons' appointment was terminated last year as an economy move, how can the University afford to import an expert to fill his shoes? And (2), since Slavic scholars don't grow on trees, what would have happened to the department if Professor Lednicki hadn't happened to be available...