Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PENROSE H. RADLEY RALPHE MERRILL JOSEPH EARL HORNER WARREN F. BRASS JANICE LEE TORBERT Helena, Mont...
Mickey Rooney began as small as an actor can be. And to get where he has gotten took Actor Rooney a lot of time, a lot of talent, a lot of brass, a lot of luck, and a lot of names...
...that his band was going to be completely different from anything he had used before. Now confirmation comes of all our predictions. A few days ago Artie Shaw recorded four sides for Victor at their Hollywood studies with a thirty-one piece band. In addition to the usual six brass, four sax, four rhythm, and Shaw, they added eight violins, three violas, two cellos, flute, oboe, bass clarinet and French horn. Victor says, "Despite the full combination, Shaw will remain (sie ! ! !) in the swing idiom. With the extra musicians, he plans to enhance his style with tone colors and effects...
Rapidly rising Starlet Betty Field, fresh from honors and a broken neck in Of Mice and Men, plays the Baby Talk Lady with a minimum of baby talk, perhaps a little too much brass...
...PATIENCE OF MAIGRET-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two novelettes by a fantastic Frenchman. Inspector Maigret waits while subordinates make the hue and brass hats foam and fret. And presently the guillotine snicks a cervix or Devil's Island claims another Gaul...