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Finally there is George Frazier's Saturday morning session at eleven-fifteen on WEEI. George isn't quite as at case as he is in print five days a week, but something interesting always happens. Last week Ben Pollack divulged in an interview that Benny Goodman used to play cornet occasionally in the most exciting Bix Beiderbecke vein. Of late, the program has included at times a record-spotting quiz, at which this column will be represented tomorrow, along with Count Basic, Al Morgan, and perhaps Lionel Hampton...
...floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York playing Paul Whiteman's old waltz, Wonderful One, on the cornet. A shy official arrives, bent on canceling the pension check, but is so beglamored by the fey, bemused life of the household that he arranges to have the payments continued. An old laborer and the parish priest gather round for a drink and contemplation of the universe. Finally the wandering cornetist comes...
Almost anyone of sensibility is a pushover for old waltz songs on the cornet, and Saroyan is a master of many similar nostalgias. Their potency keeps The Beautiful People from being merely the old charmy game, played by an expert. For, notwithstanding its whimsical deadweight, the inventive, germinal quality in Saroyan is one of the most fertile forces in the U.S. Theater...
...what I mean when you hear them get together or a last chorus of, say, Muskrat Ramble with everybody in there driving for all he's worth. It's like a photo finish at Suffolk Downs, it can be so exciting. Jimmy McParland has the lead, and his cornet rips out what you'll recognize as the melody if you can follow the chord sequence. 'George Brunics makes a background foundation on trombone, long, deep, throaty notes which you won't ever hear Tommy Dorsey play. Pee Wee Russell is playing clarinet obbligato, weaving a jerky, almost insane pattern...
...punchy," he said. "You tell me." Michael Todd, 33, is a small, dark, jut-jawed addict of cigars and green suits. He was born in Minneapolis, where he peddled papers, played a silver cornet in a boys' band until his father moved to the country to run a general store. Aged 12, Mike worked in a Chicago carnival pitch where anyone who could throw three balls into a bucket got a free duck. Mike's job was to sit hidden under a platform, jerk a string that made the balls bounce out if they happened to drop into...