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Jimmie formed a band for "gigs" (one-night stands) which was booked through James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...
...played only potted-palm tunes, big, black, Alabama-born Jim Europe held Negro jam sessions in a cafe in West 53rd Street. White folks dropped in, hired so many of Europe's friends to play "gigs" - single party dates - that Jim opened a booking office. He formed a Clef Club of Negro jazzmen, gave a concert in Carnegie Hall in 1911. He (at the piano) and his boys played for Vernon and Irene Castle. Once he excited the Castles' curiosity by playing Memphis Blues too slow for their brisk one-step. That, said Jim Europe and his friends...
Oswald, miming for all she was worth, hoarsely sang about stars in the sky, a hungry man, a family with 15 children, a man hearing sounds in the night, a child escaping from a reformatory. In one number she was accompanied by a harpist as curvesome as the treble clef: beauteous Daphne, wife of socialite Editor Harry Adsit Bull of Town & Country...
...Pennsylvania Law School he tried to get into a football game free by offering to play any instrument in the band which lacked a player. He was handed an E-flat tuba with the music for Hail Pennsylvania in another key, and transposed it by reading the bass clef as the treble and subtracting the proper number of flats, later working out an explanatory equation. Today Lawyer Scott plays the French horn in the Germantown Symphony Orchestra, owns a 16th Century cello that once belonged to Virtuoso Hans Kindler. His favorite instrument, at the moment, however, is a "probosciphone...
...judged from If Memory Serves, the low point of Sacha Guitry's career was the performance of La Clef, which he wrote for Rejane. During the third act the audience, already restless, was offended at a scene in which a husband became seasick after discovering that his wife was deceiving him. Stamping in urison began, accompanied by a strange laughter. The laughter was "transformed into a sort of murmur," then into a "more nervous, snickering laugh," a deep, terrifying silence, a low rumble, then hissing. "If you have never heard yourself hissed you can have no notion...