European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes Friday july 17, 195 j frightened by trends in . Teai Den wants of put heart Back in Musica h music Man Preston loves con Man role by wait Morehouse North american newspaper alliances new York after a year and a half in the music Man Robert Preston still loves his role As the . Mount Bank prof. Harold Hill the Man who brings the vision of 76 trombones to River City Iowa. It is the Best part of his career and he knows it Bob is that rare creature in the theatre a Happy Man. He relaxed in his dressing room at the Majestic the " Ater and discussed the changes which have come into his life since Wood for new York. New York is now Home he said. It s a. Full life. In this wonderful town it s always a Case of meeting people with the same interests. In our eight years Here my wife Catherine and i have made More and closer friends than we Preston he left Holly doodles by Roger Price 11 never did at any other period our lives. I be had More fan mail for this character of the professor than i it with anything else. And the people who write Don t want a thing they just write. Preston was born in Boston and transplanted in California at the age of two. As a teen Ager he played Julius Caesar with a Cali fornia Stock company then moved on to numerous roles at the Pasa Dena playhouse. At the age of 19 he went into motion pictures and thereafter appeared in from 40 to 45 films including reap the wild wind Tulsa and the Macomber of the music Man is his ninth play for Broadway. I had three flops in one season Preston re called. Once i closed in new York on a saturday night and opened in a new play in Hartford on Mon Day. I liked playing Joe Ferguson the perennial Ohio state halfback in the male animal " we be had three major replace ments in the music Man but we All feel it s As Lively As Ever. We got a new leading lady Arlyne Frank who stepped into Barbara Cook s role. Barbara thought her pregnancy was affecting her sing ing. I m under contract unti nov. 20 and will want to stay on unless there Are a couple of things that seem by Murray Fromson Hollywood a Jack Tea Garden the old pro of Dixie land jazz wants to put heart Back into the music business. After 35 years of trombone toot ing on three continents Teagarden says he s a Little frightened by some of the trends in american music. With a nostalgic look in his eyes he told of the Era which produced Tatum Goodman Miller bigard and Armstrong. But always he got Back to the same theme you hear a lot of noise these Days but what does it All mean ? there s hardly a demand for anything Good any More. Everyone used to enjoy music. It was festive. It was Gay. It was romantic. You could dance to it. It came from the heart. Raps fads everything is a fad now. Echo Chambers Chimes howling Cho ruses anything to get a Dif Ferent sound. Arrangers Seeni to be taking Leaky pens and flipping them at score sheets. Teagarden in t worried about he Quality of today s performers. Technically they re better than the musicians of 20 or 30 years ago,.". He said. Jack is far f r of. Untrained him self. He does much of the arranging for his own band. On a recent tour of Asia for the state department he stopped in new Delhi and before his show asked for the score for the Indian National Anthem. Undergoes surgery the Only one available was for the 90-piece Minneapolis sym phony orchestra which visited India a few years ago. Teagarden hurriedly rearranged it for his sextet. That tour ended Teagarden entered a Hospital Here for a stay of two months. The effects of Exten Sive surgery show. He has a gaunt look More like that of a weather beaten Sailor than a musician and seems older than his 53 years. Despite the changes in music Teagarden still finds Large audiences for his playing which has ranked him among the Al time greats of american jazz. What bothers him is that Rock n Roll and Cool jazz Are causing americans to lose touch with real american jazz. It s our own Art form and we re losing it he said. Some of the younger set disagree and say Teagarden is old fashioned. Maybe he said but anyone who plays from the heart is going to be considered old fashioned. Take Louie Armstrong. He s old fashioned. But he hits one note and tells you a whole Story. What does Rock n Roll or Cool jazz say. Some vibraphone players he says sound like Guys beating on boilers with hammers while the pianists act mathematicians than they add flatted fifths and think they have Art he said. They ought to leave Stravinsky and Milhaud to themselves and learn How to use. Their left hands on Teagarden s tour of the Ori ent As a Good will ambassador for the ., he went from Afghanistan to Korea playing for Kings Queens prime minister presidents College students and orphans. Stardust Man can t escape that piano Hollywood a Hoag he Carmichael concentrates mor on acting nowadays than he Doe on songwriting. He can afford to. In 1929, Hoagy wrote the Musi forstardust." that year he re Calls the son earned him $5,001 the following year it earned Little More. No it earns him $30 000 a year. Hoagy however can t get Awa from the p i a n in his acting. I scores of movie he s been cast Aca Miehael the piano Piave recently he was offered the Pai of a ranch Handyman in a rie1 Western series called Laramie and a piano was written in. Price keeps Busy Hollywood up Price recently began Vincer his thir movie role in. Seven months a Allied artists. The film is to Bat which costars Agnes Moon head. Crossword by Eugene Sheffe movie review beginning its tour of army and air Force Heaters this week King of the wild Stal Lions Diana Brewster must raise $500 to save her ranch. Stymied at every turn she enlists the Aid of George Montgomery to capture a valuable wild Black stallion. Cinema scope color. A pc a 12. 44 Ifa 4� 17 51 2ft 4b 14 55 10 out our Way by Williams i bashful tuba player just in Case you re the kind of a deader who gets curious about the 2 Typ Jiff silly situation portrayed in mis a Brodle i la take the time to " lain the Story behind it. In fact Peyjen explain the Story behind a Jpn re not interested. The timid player in the Doodle Hap to be my no Good brother Duke is not Only shy is also Skinny weak and he ? a three time loser personality depth. Our Fami-1 doctor figuring that Duke build up his body by lug Sfung ground a heavy and Cumber a Lowe instrument advised him to. Ifemkptup5 the. Tuba and it really Rufed wonders. Vovou should see. Niu Scles in Duke s Throat. 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