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...colonel made Europe band leader, raised $10,000 for instruments -30 reeds, a dozen or so brasses, two bull fiddles (for concerts). Leader Europe became a lieutenant, Sissle his drum major and top sergeant. The two of them were soon putting riffs in conventional marches, had the band blare blues to a fare-thee-well. When the 15th reached France, Europe's band was detailed to play for U. S. soldiers just back from the front lines...
...even Lombardo's exit was spoiled. Three days after his speech, President Avila Camacho put in a surprise appearance at the convention, neatly stole the show. Marching down the aisle to the blare of a truck-drivers' band, he mounted the platform, embraced his townsman Lombardo, then turned and lectured...
Pacing the entire show to the blare of a circus band, Mystery Man Dante whirls through a seething inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, makes stooges disappear right and left, introduces bouncing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets, live stock of every description, and even produces beer right out of empty barrels...
...held); the pushing, stargazing crowds; the troops of real live stars ("I seen him! Didja see her?"). This week Manhattan sees a premiere stranger and more wonderful than any of Hollywood's. The celebrities present, the publicity, the lights on the marquee, may be lost in the blare and blaze of Broadway. But strangeness and wonder belong to the show itself. It is Walt Disney's latest, called Fantasia...
There'll Always Be An England (British Fusiliers Military Band; Columbia). The patriotic ballad that, among other things, is keeping British hearts high in spite of the blare of Hitler's bombers...