Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute, four-part symphonic jazz suite by veteran Jazzman Lionel Hampton, 41, entitled King David and premiered under Dimitri Mitropoulos in Manhattan's Town Hall. Inspired and flavored by Hampton's recent tours of Israel ("I visited King David's tomb, and a chant just came to me"), the music tells in a plaintive harp opening of the Old Testament tribulations of the Jews, "blows down the Wailing Wall" in a mighty, jumping blast of brass, moves through a lively vibraphone dance to a deafening, full-orchestra crescendo of triumph...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9:30 p.m., CBS). The Wedding Present, with Celeste Holm as a lonely spinster who shocks the town by taking in Hobo Gary Merrill...
...with stocking the stage with a cast of cliches: the idealist; a shabby-willed congressman who needs an issue; his smug colleague in the other Party; two excessively stupid sleuths from the FBI; a secretary who needs romance; and an asthmatic lump of sex from the botanist's home town. The only mildly refreshing character in the Capital seems to be a likeable old rogue with a supply of bourbon in his hollow leg. He makes a useful foil for the hero, but they are both given a rather shallow stock of funny lines...
...first game with the Big Red, in mid-December, the varsity eked out a 45-44 decision in the last minute of play, as forward Dick Woolston treated his home town rooters to a fine last minute clutch performance...
Carroll grew up it seems in a little mining town in Pennsylvania, and after high school (she could never get in the school play) moved to Florida, where she tried night club dancing. Then she went alone to New York, where she was a flop on TV and tried out for a little group called Actor's Studio. She got parts in two Broadway plays as a result, and Elia Kazan happened by one day and screen-tested...