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...cast that, with one marked exception, runs the entire gamut from indifferent to very bad is an unfortunate one. If "Boyd's Shop," the Copley's first play this season, lasted only two nights on Broadway, "Return Engagement" had better prepare to go to bed right here in Beantown...
Things are certainly swingteresting this month in old Beantown. Bunny Berigan opens Monday at the Marionette Room of the Hotel Brunswick with his full band and Kay Doyle as vocalist, and Duke Ellington is at the Southland. Berigan's trumpet playing is always worth hearing, and this band is supposed to be pretty good...
Swing situation around Beantown gets a real dose of aspirin as three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...
...finding spots in which to hear good jamming or to do a little playing yourself, they just don't exist in Beantown. The number of jam joints in any given locality can always be obtained by squaring the difference between midnight and the liquor curfew. In Boston, the curfew is at one. Occasionally, the Stork Club at City Square in Charlestown will see some after-hours playing, but not as the usual thing. Ardent swing fans had best direct their efforts towards the next election...
Coach Jim O'Brien and guard James "Scoonie" Penn both came to Columbus, Ohio, from Beantown...