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...Charles George Douglas Roberts, 83, eminent Canadian poet, knighted in 1935 for literary achievements; of a heart ailment; one month after his marriage to 33-year-old radio operator Joan Montgomery; in Toronto. In his youth he toughened his body on the woodland trails of his native New Brunswick, whose forests and streams he exalted in poetry. A World War I veteran, he left behind 67 volumes of verse, fiction, biography, history, including such prose works as The Kindred of the Wild, The Feet of the Furtive, Wisdom of the Wilderness...
...like the old Teddy Wilson-Billie Holiday Brunswick records--without Teddy and Billie. Best of all, for me, was the consistently fine trumpet of Frankie Newton, who later played at a slightly phenomenal cocktail party thrown in Lowell C-33 by Kenny Berol--duets with Johnny Fields (string base) and an empty punch bowl with the resultant roomful of loaded guests. It was almost like a Yale party...
...Uncle Robert." Raised on a plantation in Virginia's south-side Brunswick County, Lucile Turner first learned about Negro music from "Uncle Robert," a colored houseman who took her as a child to Negro prayer meetings. Later, after a fashionable private-school education, she studied music at Boston's New England Conservatory. For years she so thoroughly steeped herself in Negro music that she could create it as naturally as the Negroes themselves...
...Time Goes By was sung in a Broadway show called Everybody's Welcome, recorded by Rudy Vallee (Victor) and Jacques Renard (Brunswick). Forty thousand discs were sold and then the tune dropped from U.S. memory. Composer Hupfeld, who in his time had turned out such Tin Pan Alley hits as Sing Something Simple and When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba, came to the conclusion that he was through. For ten years he seemed to be right...
...Brunswick reissues mentioned a few weeks ago have just come in. In both cases, Red Nichols and Pine Top Smith, the music is as fine as the surfaces are terrible. In addition, the seventy-five cents price is too much, even for second masters. The higher tariff would be justified by good surfaces, but in the present instance, it's pure inflation...