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...College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, one of the "cradles of swing," teen-agers danced to Claude Thornhill's sedate, glossy arrangements of Warsaw Concerto, the Nutcracker Suite, and Yours Is My Heart Alone. The Sherman's smart boss Ernie Byfield let the boys play loud after 10 o'clock, but took newspaper ads to say that there would no longer be din with dinner. In Minneapolis, the late Glenn Miller's band, still among the big ten under Tex Beneke's direction, now had twelve strings (Miller's old swing band...
...Treaty, a "political comedy" by "an official connected with the United Nations"; 2) The New York 54th Street Theater Company, a nonprofit experimental playhouse which announced an eight-week classic repertory season in Noroton, Conn, (first bill: Moliere's Georges Dandin and Goldoni's Mistress of the Inn); 3) Griffin Productions, most surprising-and-most commercial-of the three...
...Hecht calls Solomon Rabinowitch "the greatest humorist the Jews ever produced." Rabinowitch was born in Pereyaslav, the Ukraine, in 1859. In his father's inn Sol grew from boyhood to manhood-and observed the customers. At 23, he began to write-about the customers-for Hamelitz, a Jewish periodical. He took the pen name Sholom Aleichem, the Jewish equivalent of "How do you do?", and turned out copy like a mimeograph...
Saltonstall, a history teacher at Exeter since 1932, was just going to bed one night when Board Chairman Thomas S. Lament and retiring Principal Lewis Perry called and took him to the Exeter Inn. There the trustees broke the news. Students heard about it at Sunday chapel. They followed him home. Exeter's cheerleader called for "nine rahs for Saltonstall," and had trouble getting it out. Bill grinned. "Just call me Salty," he said...
...Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, where the literati of the '20s (Woollcott, Benchley, etc., etc.) lunched at his famed Round Table, and where for four decades he matched wits with assorted writers and actors, afterwards chronicled their comings & goings in two volumes of anecdotes (Tales of a Wayward Inn, Do Not Disturb}; of heart disease; in Manhattan...