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...extraordinary variety of talent which runs the line from William Abrahams, '41 winner of the Lloyd McKinn Garrison Poetry Prize to Vern Miller '42, 250-pound Varsity football tackle, has been assembled for this their fourth venture into the world of amateur theatricals...
...music committee: Louise Crane, wide-eyed, 27-year-old onetime Vassar student, daughter of Massachusetts' late, rich, paper-manufacturing Governor Winthrop Murray Crane. Miss Crane dislikes the "tortured looks" of symphony audiences. She likes jazz but hates it in nightclubs. So she roamed Harlem hunting unusual talent, and severely warned culture seekers to stay away from the results...
...concert's most musicianly talent was half-blind Art Tatum, who long ago achieved a safe middle ground between Bach and boogie-woogie. He has had serious training, learns tunes from phonograph records or by using a magnifying glass and his one fairly good eye. Art Tatum's showers of notes in jazz rhythm-as in his workout with Dvorak's banal Humor-esque-pleased his Carnegie Hall audience. The evening ended in the loudest jam session ever heard in the hall, or perhaps anywhere. There were three bands-33 men in all, including six trumpeters, five...
...Ziegfeld Girl those charms are seldom out of the camera's eye. They get Sheila Regan (Lana) into a pack of trouble. The Great Ziegfeld himself, who never appears in the picture, started it. Out spotting fresh talent for his new show, he found Sheila running an elevator. When his agent (Edward Everett Horton) arrives to tell her she is to be glorified, she is too stunned to speak. Her truck-driver boy friend (James Stewart) has to supply her address, telephone number. Told when and where to report for rehearsals, Sheila still can't answer. Says...
...singer. Although their tribulations are never worth the length that short, swart Producer Pandro Berman devotes to them, Miss Garland warbles a torrid tropical tune, Minnie From Trinidad, with true professional gusto. Miss Turner manages the limbs that are to go into limbo and an occasional dramatic sequence with talent, and Miss Lamarr does not spare her uncanny physical charms...