The Concert for Bangla Desh reshapes rock history
Records NEW YORK UPI report on The Concert for Bangla Desh, a three LP set from Madison Square Garden that raised 243 418 for UNICEF relief. Notable performers include Harrison Starr Dylan Shankar and Clapton with hits like My Sweet Lord and Blowing in the Wind. Also reviewed: Isaac Hayes Black Moses Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs and Mahler and Bernstein releases.
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New York
UPI
Madison Square Garden
United Nations Children’s Fund For
East Pakistan
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Bob Dylan
Ravi Shankar
Eric Clapton
Leon Russell
Billy Preston
Don Preston
Jim Horn
Harrison
Sweet Lord
Dylan
Starr
Dyland
Russell
Isaac Hayes
Enterprise
Hayes
Msuic
Black Moses
Charley Pride
RCA Victor
Dan Hicks
Blue Thumb
American Airlines
Melba Moore
Patti Page
Xavier Cugat
Mystic Moods Orchestra
Roger Miller
Movie ratings spark a crisis in the industry
The film business faces a rating system squeeze as R and X labels shrink audiences and TV changes drive shorter runtimes. Producers chase PG reach to court TV, while concerns linger about long term cinema habits and future moviegoing.
Japanese best seller of 1971 shrouded in mystery
Tokyo reports the top selling book of 1971 was an historical study with an author kept hidden amid controversy. Nihonji in To Yudayajin claimed a foreign Jewish background while Izaya Benda wrote it in Japanese, sparking questions about true identity. Critics doubted foreign knowledge of Japan. Publishers stayed silent as tracing efforts failed. The second best seller covered etiquette. Love Story by Eric Segal appeared as Rabus Satori in Japanese.
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Tokyo
UPI
Japan
Izaya Benda
United States
Eric Segal
Ulysses Publication Era Reshaped Literature Worldwide
On the book’s 50th birthday in 1967 and Joyce’s 90th, Ulysses remains a towering work with global reach. Random House sold 880,000 copies in the US, many in Modern Library Giant and Penguin editions, while Bodley Head moved 350,000 hardcovers. Penguin paid 180,000 for paperback rights, boosting softcover sales to 300,000. Early serialization and distribution faced censorship and legal limits, but aided by figures like Ezra Pound and Sylvia Beach, the novel helped redefine modern fiction and narrative technique.
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New York
James Joyce
Ulysses
John Dos Passos
William Faulkner
Samuel Beckett
Saul Bellow
United States
Random House
Modern Library Giant
Britain
Penguin
Ezra Pound
Little Review
Joyce
London
Harriet Shaw
Sylvia Beach
Shakespeare and Co
Paris
Adrienne Monnier
Ireland
Richard Ellman
Bennett Cerf
The Producer by Christopher Davis review
New York critics examine Christopher Davis The Producer a Harper and Row publication delivering a step by step report of Hillard Elkins effort to bring The Rothschilds musical to Broadway The book argues glamour fame and profits may not be worth the trouble for producers and crew in theater production.
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New York
UPI
Christopher Davis
Harper and Row
Hillard Elkins
Broadway
Elkins
Davis
Broadway to Launch Gershwin Musical With Victor Borge
Broadway audiences may soon see a stage version of An American in Paris starring Victor Borge. The Civic Light Opera Company will create the musical for a summer fall run in Los Angeles and San Francisco before a planned Broadway bow next December, with early July and August dates in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The story will be revised to fit Borge as a Russian nobleman who flees the revolution and becomes Paris’s musical wit in the 1920s.
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Victor Borge
Great Dane
Paris
Gene Kelly
George Gershwin
George
Ira Gershwin
Civic Light Opera Company
Edwin Lester
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Lester
Borge
Best Sellers In United Press International List
A UPI best sellers list features top fiction and nonfiction titles. Notable fiction includes The Day of the Jackal by Forsyth and The Winds of War by Wouk, with nonfiction ranging from Eleanor and Franklin by Lash to Beyond Freedom and Dignity by Skinner.
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United Press International
Day OF the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
Arthur Hailey
Herman Wouk
Eleanor and
Franklin Joseph P. Lash
Tracy
Hepburn Garson Kan
Father Gay Talese
Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
Jennie
Ralph G. Martin
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B.F. Skinner
Lawrence Welk
Stewart Brand
David Reuben
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Godfrey Cambridge
Samuel Goldwyn Jr
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Wilbur G. Landrey
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Masterworks
Alan Titus
Posterity
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Mahler
Beethoven
Bernard Haitink
Philips
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Amsterdam
Ileana Cotrubas
RCA
Jascha Heifetz
Heifetz
Sarasate
Waxman
Schubert
Khachaturian
Helen Dunlop
Horace Hollister
Jane Armstrong
Jane Davis
Joseph Stannard
Stannard
Motion Picture Association
Patton
Bradford
Anil Peatioe
Bucky Bradford Cave
Bradford House
Monument Plaza
Bennington, VT
Richard F. Shepard
N.Y
Society of Authors
The
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Weaver
By Jack Gaver
Harte Theatre
Lebanon
Chile
Glacier Adventure
Alta
Aspen
Sun Valley
Much Moore
Main ST
Bennington
Malaga
Helen MacInnes
Rabbit Redux
John Updike
William P. Blatty
Philip Roth
Harold Robbins
Agatha Christie
Bear Island
Alistair MacLean
Marx
Jesus
Triple ‘’S
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Sourmenn
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Aeons
Wome & Guiding Survey
Dial
Cap & Bells Presents
Adams Memorial Theater
Williamstown
Graphic Arts Gallery
Manchester Center
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