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Helene Rains, 16, won the 300-yd. medley (breast stroke, backstroke, crawl) in 4 min., 4.9 sec. Besides swimming, Miss Rains, a Manhattan music student, plays the piano, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, flute and saxophone, studies tap, toe, adagio and acrobatic dancing. In spare moments she paints...
Leopold Stokowski, the platinum-blond maestro of Philadelphia and Hollywood, has lately been experimenting with Army bands. His conclusions (to abolish the clarinet, to send bands playing into modern battle aboard tanks and trucks) last week came in for criticism in Congress. Said Ohio's Representative George H. Bender: "Picture the possibilities. As the tank dips into a sharp and unexpected hollow, the cries of anguish from the perturbed saxophone players would probably frighten the enemy to a quick and decisive retreat, unless the soldiers themselves would first throw up their guns in anguish to shut their ears. Having...
...band down at Cafe Society, and you may or may not have noticed him. He never won anybody's Down Beat poll, and I can't recall his being photographed at Ciro's, lingering over a long drink with a Sweater Giri-Funny thing, though, the way he plays clarinet is enough to send Goodman and Shaw back to where they come from...
...where Tesch left off, combining Teschmaker's rhythmic, eager way of playing with a superior technique, and with what impresses me as being a far greater sensitivity to the melodic potentialities of his instrument. The result is that Hall plays the best hot music you can hear on clarinet these days. Every note is a rhythmic best, hard and staccato, a method of playing which can pick up even the most lifeless of bands and make them really kick. Yet at the same time he never forgets his own musical ideas, and expresses them with a spontaneity which...
...Benny Carter get together on two old numbers: Loveless Love and St. Louis Blues, and the date is something of a comeback for Billie. She's awfully erratic, but when she's. "right," Billie can put life into Hearts and Flowers, The band offers interesting solos, including a clarinet which sounds like Edmond Hall (OKEH...