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...Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel is reopening Friday night with Charlie Vinal's Rhythm Kings, the only dixieland jazz band in eNw England. The venture is being backed by Dick Schmidt of Milton and two Harvard servicemen who hope that Army, Navy, and Marine students stationed around the campus will drop in, if only to be helpful...
...starts at 8 P.M. Fridays and Saturdays, with no cover, no minimum. The soldiers backing the band trust that their fellow servicement and Harvard undergraduates will figure that they're going SOMEWHERE for a few drinks on Saturday nights--so why not help out their colleagues by making the Copley Squares Hop Scotch Room...
...Canada for the rest of the month with the Farley band, and then opening at the Tic Toc here in town after Louis Armstrong departs. If, after that, George has to fall back on such embarrassing jobs as the one he had with Pancho's band at the Copley Plaza last fall, he plans to stay in Boston and join Charlie Vinal's band at the Copley Square (provided that the sponsors' bankrolls haven't been depleted!) on the strength of his belief that playing jazz a couple of nights a week for union scale and taking...
...musicale a l'improvisation--beginning this Sunday with a 3-to-6 session. Informality is to be the keynote, since the first customers are expected to be friends of the musicians or folks already indoctrinated to a few of the delights of dixieland jazz. However, anyone wandering into the Copley Square will have an opportunity to find out something about the music he'll hear, because along with the informal atmosphere (musicians and listeners mixing freely and discussing the music, weather, war, and T. S. Eliot between sets) will be explanatory cards at every table, slanted especially toward the neophyte...
...listening to dixieland jazz. . . This is the music of gay New Orleans, of Buddy Bolden and king Oliver, of Jelly Roll Morton and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. . . . Only at the Dixieland Room of the Copley Square Hotel can Bostonians hear such half-forgotten jazz classics as "Muskrat Ramble." 'Jazz Me Blues,' Ballin' the Jack,' 'Come Back Sweet Papa,' or 'That Da Da Strain'." On the other side will be included a note to the effect that the musicians will be happy to answer questions concerning their music...