Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Royal Rake. Carol's life is the story of the Rake's Progress in reverse, a tale of the dissipated, headstrong young man who got better as he got older, winding up a serious-minded, at times even enlightened, ruler. In point of fact, Carol was never a black sheep. He was as good a product as was likely to come out of the court in which he was reared-a court which reeked with corruption and vice, which was ruled by a conniving and ruthless camarilla, in which mother was pitted against son, brother against brother, sister...
...sound something like Ellington, the only outstanding thing about the band is Barnet himself. His tenor sax playing on the Lester Young (Count Basie) idea is usually good, although it occasionally sounds a little like a taxi-horn on a foggy night. His alto sax work is much better, and is probably the best imitation around of Ellingtonite Johnny Hodges. All in all, it would seem to me that the slogan. "Swing and sweat with Charlie Barnet" still holds...
...Dixieland band leader, has sued Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and various other people for swiping some of his arrangements, "Bugle Call Rag" being mentioned specifically. This may or may not be true. But, if this sort of suit is going to be the fashion, most of the country's better band leaders are going to end up behind the bars. It's been the custom for sometime to swipe ideas from everyone on standard tunes such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another $30,000, this time by former Victor record manager, Eli Oberstein. Oberstein claims...
...sophisticated melodrama is "Rio", elevated to its position as a far-better-than-usual second feature by the acting of Basil Rathbone; while the dresses that Sigrid Gurie wears might even bring the bald headed sugar daddies back to the front row. Gene Tunney is the star of the Information Please short...
...guard situation has not improved appreciably since the announcement Monday that Ernie Sargeant had given up football. Dick pfister has looked better, and Tom Lacey has been doing yeoman work as his sub. Pfister's weak spot at present is his blocking on pullout plays when he is slated to clean out defensive backs. This phase of his blocking could be improved...