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...that has long since practically disappeared from public knowledge was brought into the light by Sullivan last Friday when he held up the Student Union production of "Waiting for Lefty" on the grounds that it was communistic propaganda. Since then, proud of his new toy, Sullivan decided that the Hasty Pudding show, never before played under a permit, could stand being stopped for its alleged indecency...
...another piano, which she played in the evenings. On the piano at the neighbor hood Republican club, one of her favorite resorts, she sometimes played and sang opera arias. She could never pass a piano by. At Moscowitz's stationery store one day, she had a toy piano taken from the window, played until they made her stop.Occasionally, she played for the Democrats at their club. But she preferred the Republicans...
Christmas week in New Orleans, Friends Fisher & Levi got tight on Ramos gin fizzes (a drink that was new to them), pelted a policeman with a toy elephant, placated Mrs. Fisher with an armful of knickknacks. On the Gulf, after a day and a half of freezing storm, Pilot Levi headed for Mobile Bay, beached the boat. Cook Galloway leaped ashore. "I'm never going back on that boat again," he announced, and trudged off toward Mobile. Next day the Fishers and Bushman headed back...
...Victor classical release of several weeks ago gives this reviewer a chance to do something he has long wanted to: compare symphony men playing jazz with jazz men doing the same. Subjects under discussion are "Swing Stuff," "Toy Trumpet," and "Pavanne," all recorded for the Red Seal series by Arthur Fielder with the Boston Pops Orchestra, a section of the regular Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Toy Trumpet" is one of the originals written by Raymond Scott for his quintet of six men. (Incidentally, it will be one of the basic works for a Scott Ballet that the Ballet Theater is going to do on the Coast this summer). This writer has never had too much love for Scott's stuff, feeling that it was over-arranged, and mainly tricks rather than good swing. However, even with this handicap, the six men make the tune sound a thousand times as good as does the Pops Symphony...