Word: condone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time was when Eddie Condon's saloon on Third Street rattled nightly with inspired polyphony from George Brunis' trombone and Bill Davison's trumpet. Condon's rickety palace is no longer subject to such damage, with Bruins in Chicago; but the proprietor, operating as always with an eye for the main chance, has recouped his loss by promoting a remarkable young pianist...
Ralph Sutton came cast from St. Louis two years ago for a short New York contract, and just stayed. His unique approach to ragtime piano and his remarkable repertoire have kept him popular. Customers at Condon's, once wont to chat through intermission piano and save their attention for the antics of Bruins, now treat the band with a conversational scorn but restrain themselves to gentle hell taps while Sutton experiments between sets...
...Condon's has a low enough cover and a good enough six-piece band to make a visit desirable anyway. The addition of this soloist who looks like a junior executive makes such a pilgrimage almost compulsory. He treats a concert grand like an upright with newspaper behind the strings a la Chicago. That's no mean treatment, either...
...admirable part. Mr. Knox portrays the demented man as a fumbling, bewildered person rather than a maniacal killer. What in "The Closing Door" seems like underplaying by Mr. Knox, may be an authentic interpretation of a particular type of insanity, but it is not effective on the stage. Eva Condon, in the role of the Grandmother, also does a good acting...
...Leading Paris designers will create gowns of the Minoan period (the film's setting), and Seventh Avenue will turn them out to be sold by 600 stores through the length and breadth of the land. (Says Condon: "We've got more on Minoan culture than Arnold Toynbee...