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...pieces), brassiest, and worst bands he ever had-a kind of unintentional satire on everything wrong with big bands: saxophonists who stood up and writhed as they played; a brass section with a nose for noise rather than an ear for melody. He opened last week at "The Aquarium," a gaudily mirrored Broadway seafood restaurant stampeded nightly by tourists and servicemen, who lined up three deep...
Louis' first New York job was in 1924 with Fletcher Henderson's famed band at Roseland Ballroom, just five blocks from the Aquarium. His early records (West End Blues, etc.) were bigger hits in Europe than in the U.S. He followed them across the Atlantic in 1931. Those were the days when he blew screeching high notes that he probably could not make consistently today. When he hit 280 high Cs and then slid up into F one evening, a London theater manager begged him to cut it to 70 Cs, because the noise made him nervous while...
Compleat Angler. In Dallas, Aquarium Curator Pierre Fontaine almost popped an eye when a nattily dressed man strolled from his car to the aquarium lagoon, dropped a hand line, immediately hauled out a huge catfish, stuffed it in a briefcase, strolled back to his car, drove...
...Aquarium. The year was 1944. The place was a vast, dirty, cobwebbed "aquarium" of a room in a London house, which served as the British headquarters of the French Resistance. Here George Millar was interviewed as a candidate to be parachuted into France. Millar believed that he was being offered death. "And I wanted a useful death and then peace. . .. I was thirty-three and so unhappy that life was almost sense-free, almost sensation-free...
...history that Millar must memorize to go with his false identification papers. He was to be an insurance publicity agent. Then he passed through "the phony-Continental-clothes-and-accessories department" which issued everything from "summer underwear to a 'housewife.' " Millar dumped his disguises somewhere in the "aquarium" as quickly as possible; they scared...