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...merely touched on a subject which should have been given thorough treatment long ago, namely jazz in Boston. Not that there's an awful lot of it running around in this town, for it appears that every type of interest in hot music has been discouraged by a Beantown public whose taste for swing is at least negligible and at the utmost hostile. That's their business, of course. If the majority prefers Ruby Newman and Jack Marshard, and tolerates an occasional Count Basie one-nighter, then all I can say is that this is still a democracy. However...
Miss Hepzibah McWeebles from Dunkling-on-Charles will be the guest of honor of the House Committee. Miss McWeebles, long known as an affectionate glamour girl, holds the record for attending more Freshman Jubilees than any other Beantown girl. She has been to every one since...
Surviving a rather indifferent opening performance, the recently-formed Players' Theatre group is presenting a second weekend run of its musical take-off on the features and foibles of life in Beantown. Bolstered by the advantage of first--night experience and a week of hard work in which to apply the numerous lessons of that experience, "Baa Baa Back Bay" has a good chance to graduate from the mediocre to the mighty fine in its appearances tonight and tomorrow night...
Premiere striptease this week, Lois Dc Fee, is advertised as "a six foot glamorous giantess, and every inch a beauty and dazzling personality." Ann Singer ("Her face! Oh! Oh! And her torso more so.") is to be revealed in the near future. The Queen of Beantown Burlesque since your Dad's college days, Ann Corio, is doing war relief work. Her local agent quotes her as declaring, "I'd give the skirt off--" but let the bare facts speak for themselves...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. The one and only Grover Sales (who found out you can get an education at Harvard without registering) tells the story of the infamous Boston Hot Club in the October issue of the Hot Record Society Rag. Jam sessions with Count Basie, raids by the Beantown police, George Frazier's night in jail are all featured in Grover's account of the club's decline and fall. . . . Eight-neat fans may add to their list Teddy Powell's DECCA recording of Teddy's Boogie-Woogie. It's fast jump, with a gang of good choruses. . . . Will...