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From London, where he is busy getting his Carmen Jones produced, Broadway's Billy Rose last week sent Columnist Walter Winchell a report on everything from St. Paul's to Piccadilly streetwalkers, but chiefly on the state of the theater...
...Without exception the better managements here are all interested in Carmen Jones.... I think the show would run from one to three years here-not that that is much of a trick-everything runs here. To be a producer in London today you must know how to do just one thing -unlock the front door...
...started with in London, Ont. in 1923. Three of the band are his brothers. Papa Lombardo, Italian-born, was a tailor who bought musical instruments for his kids. Guy, now 43, and sleekly handsome, started on the violin, now just stands in front of the band. Brother Carmen, 42, plays sax, and Brother Lebert, 41, the trumpet. Their first dates were at Lake Erie summer resorts. Later, in Chicago, the jazz mecca of the bootleg era, the Royal Canadians were interrupted one night by a gangland machinegun battle. Lombardo reassured radio listeners: "That . . . was our drummer...
...sweet band on the air. The Royal Canadians gross nearly a million dollars a year, have cut 500 phonograph discs. Last year the Royal Canadians were acclaimed by Orchestra World for introducing more song hits (250) than any other band. Some 30 were written by Brother Carmen-among them Confucius Say, Coquette, Oh, Moitle and Boo-Hoo (BooHoo, I'll tell my mama on you, the little game that you played has made her baby oh! so blue). Downbeat a trade journal for those who like it hot, scornfully voted Lombardo "The King of Corn...
...gypsy cigaret girl is more tawdry and brassy than she was in Stokowski's earlier Carmen recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Performance: poor...