Word: clarinet
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...spends his spare time playing (violin, saxophone, clarinet) with the ''Frank Derrick Orchestra," makes another $4,000 a year...
...Renaissance style of the play. Having played Benedick off and on for 28 years, he gave a performance that was marvelously nuanced. Still, as he himself has admitted, he is not an ideal Benedick. The part demands more brio than he has inside him to give. He plays the clarinet when he should be blowing a trumpet. Yet he was careful to choose a Beatrice that would properly balance the see-saw, in this case Margaret Leighton...
Before going into the restaurant business, Chaprales studied music for 16 years and played clarinet and sax in his own band, "Charlie Ellis and his Five Notes of Rhythm...
Died. Sidney Bechet, 62, Negro Dixieland jazz artist famed for the honeyed wail of his soprano saxophone; of cancer; in Garches, a Paris suburb. At ten Bechet was tooting his clarinet in the dives of Storyville, New Orleans' oldtime red-light district, over the years spread the lusty music of Dixieland up and down the land, across the Atlantic. An eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor...
Phil plays a passable clarinet, Mimi at best has a middling voice, and their humor -which leans heavily on Mimi's buck teeth-belongs to the Keith-Orpheum circuit of three decades ago. In a way, they are so bad that they are disarming. There is a youthful nice-kid quality about them, and an innocent gaiety that captivates audiences: Ford and Hines were an instant national hit when Jack Paar gave them a guest shot last August...