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...York Minster this summer, Organist Noble plans to go on composing at his ocean-front home in Massachusetts, "until the publishers start turning me down." In retirement, he may also have enough leisure to correct the oft-published story that he is the uncle of British-born Jazz Bandman Ray Noble. Says Dr. Noble with a smile: "We're no relation at all. I can't imagine why he should want to claim...
Other reducers: Bandman Paul Whiteman shrivelled from 293 Ib. to 189 lb. in one year. He started with a diet of grapefruit juice and green vegetables, and no liquor. For breakfast he had black coffee and grapefruit juice; for lunch some greens, but no dressing; for dinner lean meat and a green vegetable. One day a week his menu was composed entirely of starches and sweets...
...They will play many times without sounding worn. They can be dropped without disaster. A new Durium record will be issued each week, one played by a leading Broadway orchestra and chosen as "hit of the week" by a jury composed of Producer Florenz Ziegfeld, Comedian Eddie Cantor and Bandman Vincent Lopez...
...decade or so ago, Manhattan's Hippodrome was famed for monster, lustrous theatricals. Visitors swarmed to see such sights as Bandman Sousa, Skater Charlotte, Diver Annette Kellerman, Buffoon Nat Willis and whole menageries of animals in congress on one huge stage. Behind the scenes was Showman R. H. Burnside, purveyor of size rather than taste...
Featured were oldtime Hippodrome names and numbers, including: Comedian De Wolf Hopper (appearing as wizard, interlocutor, Mephistopheles, Chinese Mage); Tramp-Comedian Joe Jackson and his disintegrating bicycle; ballets (Tiller, Rasch, Lenora) ; clowns, skaters, dogs, an elephant. Many of the tunes were written by Bandman Sousa, including the blaring, brassy march " 'Tis the Eagle...