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With its prolixity and banal poetizing, The Great God Brown is as heavy with fog as it is lacking in flesh. Opening its seventh season with so tough a challenge, the Phoenix Theater could not meet it in production. As the best way of sustaining interest, Director Stuart Vaughan makes use of the stylized and the histrionic. Now and then, the tricks are vivid, but the gaudy orchestration only stresses the hollowness of the music...
Broken-Hearted Melody (Mercury). Songstress Sarah Vaughan, as chirpy as a sparrow, wonders whatever happened to "the lips I love to kiss." The warble alone could have driven him away...
...losers looking forward to next year, homeowners across the U.S. besieged garden stores for poison to kill off this year's waning crab grass, spades and shovels to dig it out of their lawns, sturdy seed to protect them against its ravages again in the spring. In Chicago, Vaughan's Seed Co. estimated that its 1959 lawn chemical sales are running 50% ahead of last year. In Marysville. Ohio, O. M. Scott & Sons, biggest U.S. lawn supply house, looked forward to a $30 million year, up $6,600,000 over record 1958. Said a Scott salesman...
...Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found big tape collections; one Moscow physicist, who plays "a real cool saxophone." had everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Dave Brubeck and Sarah Vaughan. Poorer musicians who cannot tape or smuggle records cut their own homemade disks on discarded X-ray plates. "We saw one," says Mitchell, "on which you could still see somebody's bones...
...choice of this play marked an act of courage. Few people are familiar with it. Those with any knowledge of the plot have usually acquired it through one of the dozen or so operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love. But the directors were willing to gamble (or gambol); and their slot (or slut) machine has come up with three cherries--a winning combination that ought to keep the box office coffers filled and the audience coughers silent...