Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...
...Thomas Armstrong, Vice-President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Herman Brock, Vice-President of the Guaranty Trust Company; are additions to Table 1, on Latin-American relations...
...above is a rough condensation of what one Louis Armstrong now at the Southland with his band has done for jazz. "Satchmo'" has given jazz a colorful lexicography all its own, and even more important has exercised tremendous influence on the music itself...
...that it isn't as good. Of course not--but despite occasional of-nights, his playing is still a great deal better than anybody else's. For samples of Louis at his greatest, get "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, baby" or any of the Earl Hines-Armstrong series of duets...
Only for the first few minutes does his shy, worried presence on the screen, in the midst of a cast of seasoned professionals like Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong and Cora Witherspoon, threaten to be embarrassing. As the story proceeds, examining Corrigan's weary scrimpings to pay for flying lessons and then for his own plane; his painfully ineffectual efforts to become a transport pilot; finally, the well-planned exploit which brought him fame, his failings as an actor become the virtues of realism. Thus, The Flying Irishman is raised from the level of a routine Hollywood quickie to that...