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Music for Grofe then came to mean playing every instrument in the band. He toured the California mining camps with one Professor Jerome who gave the miners dancing lessons. He played once in a brothel. He played in the first Paul Whiteman orchestra when jazz, unknown in the East, was starting its swift, insidious advance on the Barbary Coast. A good musician, a born improviser, he was soon mak-ing all the Whiteman arrangements. Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin to write him some music for a serious concert. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was a piano solo. Grofe scored...
...into social shape and is pleased with plans to build 50 mi. of railroad so that the Children's Collective can import raw material to provide work for idle hands. A model of regeneration, his great moment arrives when Fomka Zhigan, onetime Fagin of the wild boys, establishes a brothel near the Children's Collective. Aided by his comrades, Mustapha demolishes the place much as Carrie Nation used to demolish saloons, is later killed for doing so by Zhigan. Pictorially brilliant, like many another Russian film, Road to Life is tentative rather than original in its use of sound. English...
...liners use Pier No. 42, North River. For nine years, said Director Schuengel, the line tried to get larger accommodations in Manhattan for its big new ship. An early offerer of his good offices was Mayor Walker's German-American friend, David Maier, who used to be a brothel-keeper until he was sent to Sing Sing for trying to tamper with a witness in a legislative investigation (TiME, Sept. 14). Ex-Convict Maier procured $500 from N. G. L. to give to a sheriff who was politically influential among the city's transplanted Teutons. Then Maier said...
...almost any article that might appear in your magazine, and that you would absolutely forbid its use in connection with an individual, organization or community unless it was proven through official court action that that individual, organization or community was obscene, indecent and engaged in the operation of a brothel-to all of which unpleasantries the meaning of the word bawdy is exclusively confined, according to dictionary definition...
...Constant Sinner. Three seasons ago Mae West's lusty singing of "Frankie and Johnnie" and the nostalgic flavor of bar and brothel scenes made Diamond Lil a Broadway hit. In The Constant Sinner, which Mae West wrote from her own novel, the bars and brothels are Harlem, 1931, and Mae West does not sing. But The Constant Sinner is no tame play, nor is it a dull play. Though handicapped by a more effete period, Mae West in some of her lines attains the lush bawdiness of her earlier production: "That dame [Cleopatra] went in for everything . . . she even went...