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...master exponents. Among those who do not belong to the Flute Club are Wayman Carver, a brilliant hot flutist who has played with some of the best Negro jazz bands, and Alberto Socarras, also a spirited syncopator, whose rumba band was last week at Broadway's Café Zanzibar. The finest legitimate flutist in the U.S. is William Kincaid, a courtly, silver-haired, Honolulu-raised native of Minneapolis, whose abilities ornament the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like all great flutists, Kincaid has a chest like a bellows. He developed it while a child, swimming at Hawaiian beaches with his friend Duke...
Hammerstein's lyrics are as right and renovating as his book. The seductive Seguidilla becomes Dere's a Café on de Corner; the Quintet turns into Whizzin' Away Along de Track. Carmen gets a load of Joe, and her famed flirtatious Habanera becomes Dat's Love...
Night Out. In Cleveland, Restaurateur Albert Luxemberg, who for more than a year had slept at his café every night to watch out for burglars, finally decided to spend a night at home. Stolen: 18 cases of whiskey...
...Become café society's chief spokesman...
Next to the late great Nicolò Paganini, the most famous violinist of the 19th Century was a fantastic Norwegian named Ole Bull. Ole (rhymes with Café au lait) took scarcely a violin lesson in his life. His brilliant playing was always eccentric in technique and in emotion it was usually the most sumptuous ham. But big, courtly, iron-muscled Ole was the most assertive personality in Norway and one of the most assertive personalities outside it. Last fortnight the first full-length biography of Ole Bull was published by his granddaughter's husband, Mortimer Smith of Sandy...