Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second floor of a nondescript building in Greenwich Village, above a reducing salon (and around the corner, for those who care, from the residence of e. e. cummings), there is published every week an anomalous organ called the Village Voice, which has served as the bottle from which the comic genie Jules Feiffer was launched upon a small but highly appreciative world. There are other good things in the bottle, but so far only Feiffer, whose cartoons continue to appear there weekly, has risen from oblivion to the Voice and then directly to paperback publication, autograph-signing tours of college...
...year with his harmonica; suddenly he was ignored by employers who could not stand his noisy political ways, almost broke from prosecuting an inconclusive libel suit against a charge that he was a Communist. But when he finally came back, a four-week engagement at Greenwich Village's Village Gate stretched on to ten. And all of a sudden it was good-money times again...
...when a Greenwich, Conn, housewife objected to his appearance in her town. Eventually Adler went back to England. Vaughan Williams wrote a piece for him; so did Darius Milhaud and Cyril Scott and Arthur Benjamin. In time, U.S. producers asked him to return. Now recording contracts are waiting along with nightclub engagements. "I'd like to alternate between the U.S. and the rest of the world," he says, but there is no doubt that recognition at home is what pleases him most. "I played part of Porgy recently," he recalls, "and a member of the cast told...
...Seesaw. The way of an Omaha man with a Greenwich Village maid is often funny and bittersweet...
...Seesaw. A Greenwich Village girl and an Omaha lawyer take love for a pick-me-up, and life is passingly sweet, sad and funny...