Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wrigley called his cotton plan a "sincere and friendly gesture to the South," which he is said to love because he used to travel through it as a drummer. Cotton traders agreed that it was a gesture, not a cotton speculation, because 200,000 bales would be too infinitesimal a quantity to affect the broad price of a crop that runs into 13 or 14 million bales. And for a shrewd piece of publicity to boost Wrigley sales in the South, advertising men gave Mr. Wrigley full credit. Like wheat in western Canada, cotton in the South is the overwhelmingly...
Married. Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 24, Earl of Lincoln, onetime drummer in a London jazzband, son &heir of the 8th Duke of Newcastle, and Mrs. Jean Banks Gimbernat, Manhattan socialite divorced last year in Reno; in Manhattan. In 1902 his father sold the family's most famed possession: the blue Hope diamond, reputed to bring doom upon all who own it (said to have been the property of Queen Marie Antoinette, who was beheaded, it now belongs to the separated Edward Beale McLeans of Washington...
...with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between the knees and played by the fingers of both hands), the claves (two sticks of a rare Cuban wood, which make a clicking sound when struck to gether) and the maracas (gourds filled...
...have to pass judgment since they had created it. Audiences will hum "In Vienna" and "We Make a Happy Pair." The story, full of reminiscences of three generations of operetta, is concerned with a cobbler's daughter who has two military lovers-a lieutenant and a drummer. Silliest idea: Vivienne Segal's frustrated love for the drummer reborn in her grandchild who falls in love with the drummer's grandchild who has made symphonic arrangements out of his grandfather's songs...
Coincidentally last week there rose at Covent Garden a ghost of another description. Seats had been taken out of the auditorium. Jazzman Herman Darewski (composer of "Whispering," "K-K-Katy") was playing for a ball, when suddenly he noticed his drummer drop his sticks, stare goggle-eyed into space. Darewski turned and saw (he said) an apparition of Wagner's Siegfried, helmeted and armed, stalking over the heads of the dancers. Darewski collapsed in a chair. Dancers flocked around him, said they could see nothing. But the incident gave rise to much whispering. It has long been rumored that...