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...suitcase expert. But they were united in their devotion to the principle that jazz sans arrangements, sans rehearsals, and in short sans everything but spirit, lung power, and a smattering of relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown Strutters Ball," it had become apparent to the bystanders that here was an occurrence above and beyond the usual order of things. From thence and in the following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed...
...staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only really fresh face belongs to Frank Latimore, who plays Chicago department-store tycoon Irving Netcher (who is Rosie's current, real-life husband...
...finals, the audience's applause gave first prize ($35) to John Richard Pavlock, just out of high school, who conducted Whispering with a dignified beat-result of ten years' listening to the Detroit Symphony. Charles Hill, a fat little high-school teacher, thrashed through the Darktown Strutters' Ball, nearly fell down at the end, won $25. Bill DeHart, gangling 15-year-old, took $15 for his wild, jitterbugging direction of Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet. By week's end, when he moved on to hold contests in Cincinnati, Sammy Kaye was ordering batons in lots...
...Frazer, a propertied man, also something of a philanthropist, was vice president of the Moneywasters. He was also operator of the Rhythm Night Club, a big (200 by 40 ft.) shack of wood and corrugated iron on St. Catherine Street in Natchez' darktown. He leased the building from Mrs. C. Ferriday Byrnes, who rates even higher among Natchez whites than her tenant did among Natchez Negroes. The Negroes who went to Moneywaster dances at the Rhythm were mostly laborers, carpenters, waiters, servants in the best homes of Natchez...
Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street (Will Osborne; Varsity). A dusky novelty of particular interest to Philadelphians who do and do not know they have a darktown...