Word: 52nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tempo. . . Richard Himber's imitation of Basie and other bands is done quite well (Victor) . . . About the Goodman Quintet's record of "Pick-A-Rib" (Victor): It sounds to me as if his brother Harry were the bass player on the record. And brother Harry runs a barbecue on 52nd Street in New York known as the Pick-A-Rib. That wouldn't be an advertisement, would it? The first side is uniformly bad, sounding something like one of Ray Scott's compositions. The second, done in boogie-woogie tempo is better, but shows that Teddy Wilson can't play...
...many of his colleagues, Tcheng Loh found Nanking too hot for him, some time ago took refuge in the Japanese-controlled quarter of Shanghai, leaving detailed administration in Nanking to his Japanese advisers. Even in Shanghai, however, Japan finds it difficult to protect her creatures. Tcheng Loh was the 52nd victim of political assassination in the Shanghai area since Japanese occupation of the city...
Three Little Words (Commodore Music Shop, 52nd Street, Manhattan). Newest and one of the ablest of hot chamber-music combinations-Jess Stacy (piano), Bud Freeman (saxophone), George Wet-tling (drums)-does an old one. Two Stacy choruses in the middle are notably imaginative...
...Want a Little Girl (the Kansas City Six; Commodore Music Shop, Manhattan's West 52nd St.). Part of the Basie band, without Pianist Basic, insinuatingly records a slow oldtimer. Notable for Buck Clayton's trumpet, Eddie Durham's electric guitar...
...Five-year-old Snark: the 52nd running of the historic mile-and-a-quarter Suburban Handicap; by a nose, over Jerome Louchheim's four-year-old Pompoon; in 2 min., 1 2/5 sec., fastest undisputed time in the history of the race; at Belmont Park. Disgruntled was the crowd of 25,000 who had gone to the track hoping to see Samuel Riddle's famed War Admiral run against his old rival, Pompoon, as a substitute for the widely publicized $100,000 Memorial Day race with Seabiscuit, which had been called off earlier in the week because...