Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vice president of the Victor Company, made the announcement. First prize, he said, went for Two American Sketches to Thomas Griselle of Mount Vernon, N. Y., graduate (1911) of the Cincinnati College of Music, whose recent activities have been with special radio programs. Second prize has been awarded Rube Bloom of Brooklyn for his Song of the Bayou. Both, according to terms of the contract, are U. S. citizens. Each composition took less than five minutes when smartly played at the banquet by Nat Shilkret and his Victor orchestra. Next day both compositions were released on a record-Griselle...
...indeed seems that an obscure band called "Paul Whitman Orch," have made something very marvelous and quite terrific. Two twelve inch records carry the four parts of METROPOLIS. Some details: By Ferdie Grof and Rube Bloom. Composers at the pianos. Cynical-blue-tragic-droll. Part three most interesting. Vocal work like unto nothing I have ever before heard in all my life...
OKEH produces two piano solos. RUBE BLOOM'S "That Futuristic Rag" and "Serenata", and Organ Grinder Blues" and Wildflower...
Imagine this combination: RUBE BLOOM plus GEORGE GERSHWIN plus THE COMPOSERS AT THE PIANO plus PAUL WHITEMAN plus TWO VICTOR TWELVE INCH RECORDS plus the name METROPOLIS. This is rumored to be released sometime in October. Orders may be placed now on the strength of the rumor...
Lilacs. Lilacs bloom for Christmas when Dr. Frank Earl Denny, research director of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Yonkers wishes it. Likewise two crops of potatoes grow for him where only one obliges the efforts of another. Nature has given plants a dormancy period which is the plague of horticulturists. Dr. Denny found that exposure to the vapors of ethylene chlorhydrin and ethylene dichloride waked plants up immediately...