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...social and protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler, Pianist Alec Templeton, and the dogged panel of classicists. By that time the classicists more or less agreed: it would be all right for Manhattan's Station WQXR to broadcast blues...
...father is today performing in the three rings, of the "Greatest Show On Earth" and his brother is working with a smaller show. Lon Jacobs, Milt Taylor, and Felix Adler, the King of clowns, are familiar figures to him, but Pearce is majoring in mechanical engineering and only get behind his white face with the big nose for club meetings, dinners, children's parties, and has no longing for the big top at any time other than vacation...
...Nathan Adler '42, Robert W. Blake 2L, William S. Davis Jr., '44 Lawrence E. Gamble Herbert T. Greene OcC. Firman A. Houghton, Dix Lesson '43, William R. Parsons Jr., '42, Charles F. Howley, Jr., '48, William R. Thurston...
Harmonicist Adler, by adroit sucking and blowing, along with skillful finger work, can make his mouth organ sound like a violin, oboe, French horn, trumpet. In this week's CBS show-Lip Service, on Norman Corwin's Workshop hour-he is an appallingly corny hillbilly who imitates the sounds of a train, swings part of a Mozart violin sonata, plays Bach and variations on Turkey in the Straw...
Until recently, Larry Adler had not learned to read music. Of his ways with the mouth organ, he says adroitly: "I think it the way I want to hear it, and it comes out that...