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Thirty years have passed since Trumpeter Harry James peeked out between the curtains at the overflow audience in Carnegie Hall and whispered: "I feel like a whore in church." That was the night that Benny Goodman's big band first brought jazz to the concert hall, and in memory of the occasion Benny got the old group together last week for an evening of dinner-and-jam at his Manhattan apartment. Some of the boys -James, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist...
...giants, both men are essentially impotent, and to Mayer--as to Welles--this is not a small part of the American myth, for their impotence is both a driving source of power and an ultimate source of failure. In a whorehouse scene just before Fisk is shot, Claudia, a whore, says to her madam, "I would rather be Mr. Fisk's whore than the President's lady." Listening, Fisk answers gently, "I would rather be Claudia's hero than President," and then follows Gould to a business conference...
...Radley Metzger, the director, isn't satisfied with catering to every pervert's taste. He plays with innocence. Carmen strolls joyously through the streets like the whore who does no wrong in Never on Sunday. The decor of her bedroom would please Ross Hunter...
...Hookers' Market" [Aug. 18]: Hats off to the whores of America, who in this day and age give the hypocrites a sense of superiority. But imagine the thousands of would-be whores who are put out of business by the churchgoing, housekeeping mothers who ask no compensation. This is America, where a court will sentence a whore to jail and reward an adulterous wife with all manner of "legal" compensation. The American wife-mother is still the greatest answer to prostitution and not punishment by courts. Whores unite! Marry. This will give you legal sanction. Husbands consider! How many...
America, America, how do you breed these mores? The adulteress would not "dirty" herself by accepting money; the whore would not stoop to sending her man off to work all day for wages she can earn in half an hour. A wonderful "market" for attorneys and orphanages and jailers. Corruption in Asia! Indeed...