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Flip-Flops to Congreve. Robert Edwin Clark was born, a train conductor's son, in Springfield, Ohio. His first job was carrying papers-"not selling them, mind you. I had a route-I didn't stand on a corner prostituting my art." As a boy he did flip-flops with Paul McCullough in the backyard. The two practiced acrobatics, soon got jobs on the small time. For 30 years they appeared in tent shows, minstrel shows, circuses, burlesque, vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies...
Last week, NBC's Contented Hour, one of radio's oldest and best-known, began its 15th year. But it was almost a new show. Gone were the moo and the bell, the bleating ballad. Only familiar prop was Canadian-born, 36-year-old Conductor Percy Faith. Regarded as one of radio's top arrangers, he is equally deft with light classics and new jazz. His formula for a new contentment: more Kostelanetz-like arrangements of Gershwin and Rodgers, fewer old soothers like Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes...
...Dass ich sehe, wer mich besiegt Und wer meine Uhr gekriegt!" (". . . That I may see who conquered me And who got my watch!") The audience roared, clapped, stamped, and the conductor had to oblige with two encores of the passage. The handful of Russians in the auditorium, well-aware that their habit of appropriating any watch they can lay their hands on is a pet German peeve, were more hurt than annoyed. Said one much-decorated Red warrior after the concert: "I did not think it was at all funny. If these people only knew that I shall be able...
Bare-kneed, clean-scrubbed nine-year-old Michael Spivak stepped to the podium of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Dignified Sir Ernest MacMillan, the Toronto's conductor, gravely stepped down, handed Michael his birch baton. Michael handed him an ocarina in exchange...
...thinks the spread of Basic as a globalingo could help avert war, and he also believes it would end such peacetime horrors as the outburst by the visiting Symphony conductor to his chattering London musicians: "Don't spoke! I stand it then and now, but always, my God, never!" Richards is convinced that English is becoming the world's language; the only issue is whether it will be Basic English or broken English...