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Last May, when the film was completed, it was gravely announced that Shirley Temple,11, was temporarily retiring from the screen. Her previous picture, a gaudy, $1,000,000 adaptation of The Bluebird, was still in the red, and Shirley's huge foreign market had gone off to war. So Fox handed Shirley an accumulated bonus of $300,000, packed up the toys in her studio bungalow and wished her luck...
...race was staged at Northport Harbor on Long Island Sound, two entries boasted speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h.: Lou Fageol's So Long (97.451 m.p.h. over a measured mile) and George Cannon's Gray Goose III (92.309 m.p.h.). Motorboats have gone faster (Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird II hit 141 m.p.h. last year), but for a Gold Cup boat, limited to engines of 600 to 732 cu. in. piston displacement, 97 m.p.h. was going some...
...glad to know that well-merited recognition is finally coming their way as Lionel Hampden used them in a recent Victor recording session. The "Cardinal" will also be interested, as will most of you, in the middle part of the Earl Hines theme, "Deep Forest," released this week on Bluebird...
...several re-issues on Bluebird, "Swing Is Here" and "I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music" by Gene Krupa and added stars is a very interesting record. Done in 1936 (February), it forecasts what was to happen to the Goodman band a year later: loud but powerful rhythm and fast, amazingly technical solos. Benny Goodman (clarinet), Roy Eldridge (trumpet) and Chu Berry (tenor sax) play the solos on this record. With the exception of Chu's, the solos are repetitious as the dickens and sound like every solo the men had made--and Chu's are just fair...
Victor, continuing its reissues on Bluebird, brings out a Goodman Trio record of "Nobody's Sweetheart" and "More Than You Know" next week. And due out shortly are the following which should be plenty good: "Swing Out" (a new master of this Luis Russell record)... "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" by Louis Armstrong... "New Orleans Twist" by Gene Gifford... "Swing Is Here" by Gene Krupa (with Chu Berry, Roy Eldridge, and Jesse Stacy solos, this is worth getting)... "Peggy" by McKinney's Cotter Pickers... "Stingeree Blues" by King Oliver...