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...years ago Vinton Freedley meddled with such an idea when he tried to dramatize "Young Man With a Horn" starring Burgess Meredith. Eddie Condon and various other top-ranking men were actually signed up, but after a few weeks the pristine enthusiasm over the idea faded and no more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...this week. Three of that group are men who began in the Austin High period: bespectacled Joe Sullivan, who learned his piano at the Chicago Conservatory; gaunt, elfin "Pee Wee" Russell, famed for his thin, jetting runs and husky growls on the clarinet; boyish-looking, elliptical-screwball-talking Eddie Condon, who can make his guitar a whole rhythm section...
...England Cannot Win." At the Lindbergh rally was Lawrence Dennis, No. 1 intellectual Fascist in the U.S. Novelist Kathleen Norris, Oldster Jafsie Condon, go-between in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, huge, lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, and Journalist John T. Flynn, foe of the New Deal and intervention, sat on the platform. There also sat Anne Lindbergh, author of "The Wave of the Future." "Phooey on England!" screamed a woman in the crowd dominated by New York Irish and other anti-British partisans...
...Dorsey play. Pee Wee Russell is playing clarinet obbligato, weaving a jerky, almost insane pattern of dissonant, spit-laden phrases, companying his efforts with facial contortions that make you fear for his blood-pressure. And all the time, the rhythm section led by George Wetting's drums and Eddic Condon's guitar, is giving the boys a wonderful beat to work around. It's the climax, now, and you think it's all over. They can't play any better than this, but at the end of the chorus McPartland raises his hand signalling for one more, and everybody comes...
...Roscoe McRae . . . Speaking of jam sessions, you can hear a pretty good recorded one on the four sides issued by the Commodore Music Shop. Band features Marty Marsala (trumpet), George Brunies (trombone), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), "Maurice" (known to his best friends as Fats Waller), Artie Shapiro (bass), Eddie Condon (guitar), and George Wettling (drums). Solos don't measure up to the standards set on the Teagarden date, but the musicians have a wonderful talent for getting together on the finish and really making the last couple of choruses jump. Best side is Oh Sister Ain't That...