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...years I have been trying to teach American History students that Johnson was impeached. I must confess I haven't had complete success. Maybe your movie critic was one of my ex-students. At least, the following quotation from the Jan. 11 issue, "Johnson . . . who narrowly escaped impeachment by a righteous Congress," leads to the suspicion that one of my students went East...
George Frazier, famous jazz critic, now working for Life, writes from New York that the band seemed self-conscious in most of the numbers. "Black, Brown, and Beige" although disorganized, had some very lovely parts. He thinks it is a proof of the fact that Ellington is eventually going to do something incredibly exciting. Ben Webster played beautifully, as did all others, but Johnny Hodges' solo on "Day Dreams" got the most applause. Duke played "Blue Belles of Harlem" almost as a piano solo and he played better than ever before. A girl named Roche now sings with the band...
When Brahms was first played by the Boston Symphony, the whole town more or less seethed. It was suggested by one critic that the regular exit signs be replaced by others saying, "This way out in case of Brahms." Now, however, Koussevitsky could play an all-Cole-Porter program and hardly a dowagerly eyebrow would be raised. It is probably no exaggeration to say that unless music recovers its direct person-to-person relationship with audiences, it won't survive as an art in its present form. We are at a turning point now, and it is hard to predict...
Investigation into renewed "muggings" on Manhattan's streets disclosed that Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had been assaulted at 2 a.m. on Fifth Avenue. Two strangers jumped him from behind, knocked him down, tried to throw him through a plate glass window, went off without robbing him. He got a sore rib, a thoroughly shredded overcoat...
...bitter and unreasonable end, especially if they are lost causes. Haggin, for instance, in his zeal for the cause of Toscanini, wrote recently in the "Nation" that he found Koussevitsky's Beethoven and Brahms "impossible to listen to." For the most part, he is a very acute critic, perhaps the most acute, but he has an uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack, but now that the aging maestro has very obviously lost his spark, Haggin is daily...