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...lead their own. Still another was husky, florid Trumpeter Jimmy MacPartland, who assembled the small band at the Brass Rail this week. Three of that group are men who began in the Austin High period: bespectacled Joe Sullivan, who learned his piano at the Chicago Conservatory; gaunt, elfin "Pee Wee" Russell, famed for his thin, jetting runs and husky growls on the clarinet; boyish-looking, elliptical-screwball-talking Eddie Condon, who can make his guitar a whole rhythm section...
...spate of messages addressed to Berlin, some were earnest, some were elfin. A couple of Harvard professors wanted to know what Hitler's peace terms would be and what guarantee Germany would give to insure just distribution of food sent to Belgium. Many demanded to hear a description of Hitler's funeral, and gibes at Nazi racial laws grew tedious with repetition. Sample whimsies: "God save the King-and God help you," "We are all pure-bred Aryans here. Please let us have some more Japanese music," "Why is Göring so fat and the rest...
...almost deaf ears. This "silent" music was not altogether silent, and it was just provocative enough to make listeners wonder whether the silence of other bands might sound better than Scott's. But the stunt showed that Mr. Scott still had his bid in as the most elfin of U. S. bandsters...
Died. Arthur Rackham, 72, foremost English illustrator, elfin and old-worldish as his quaint, delicately grotesque children, gnomes, hobgobliny trees beloved by readers of fairy tales throughout the English-speaking world; in Limpsfield, Surrey, England...
...Modish, elfin-faced Eve Curie sued E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. for $50,000 damages. Her plaint: Not only had a Du Pont ad used an unauthorized photograph of her well-turned legs, but the ad conveyed the false impression that she wore Nylon (a Du Pont silk substitute...