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Surely the moment PeeWee Russell and Bill Davison moved into the Ken, you'd thing jazz lovers would stampede the place. They didn't Monday night; the good word hadn't travelled far enough. But by the end of this week, the Ken should be packed every night, Most people have never heard of Davison, as he's made only a few records and these for private labels, but PeeWee Russell is undoubtedly one of the greatest jazz clarinetists of all time...
...also argue all night as to whether is a Chicago style, but Davison's six-piece combo plays differently than Scabby Lewis at the Savoy, and differently than Red Allen or Frankic Newton, whose bands were recently in Boston. They play old Dixieland tunes like "Fidgety Feet" and "Oh Baby," and blow the roof off in the process. But you don't mind the plaster falling all around you. Not when Davison plays cornet out of the side of his mouth, with's wonderful husky flavor like Berigan or Spanier. Not when PeeWee chortles his notes sometimes with an amazingly...
...notice the lack of a trombone, but the band is the first to admit it. "If we only had Brunics here," they say. If they had Brunies, they'd have the three biggest clowns in the business, Brunics, PeeWee and Davison...
Fortnight ago the District Democratic committee decided that enough poll-tax payers (250 required) had signed a petition for the Aug. 4 primary to permit the candidacy of grey-haired, bespectacled Emmett C. Davison, 64, secretary-treasurer of A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, onetime mayor of Alexandria, member of the northern Virginia draft-appeals board. In 1936 Davison was tried, acquitted on a charge of concealing assets in personal bankruptcy proceedings. He ran again for mayor of Alexandria, to vindicate himself, was badly beaten...
...charge of the 1917 reunion were Harrison G. Reynolds and Robert H. Davison. Richard Harte is the Chief Marshal, and will serve in that capacity this afternoon. Clement K. Stodder is Secretary, and Marland C. Hobbs, treasurer...