Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brunswick Record Corp.'s Manhattan laboratory has lately been a hotbed of Negro jazz-Duke Ellington and Don Redman with their high-spiced bands, Torch-Singers Ethel Waters and Adelaide Hall, Cecil Mack's choir; the four Mills Brothers who learned to sing like tubas and saxophones back in Piqua, Ohio, because they could not afford to buy the instruments; Tapdancer Bill Robinson who went to the laboratory at midnight because his feet twinkle faster when the night is half done...
...Wife to Caesar, as in her first novel The Ellington Brat, Authoress Mellett places her characters along the Potomac's stormy northeast bank. A Washingtonian, wife of the Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...
...guests will be the three leading actresses in "The Little Racketeer," Queenie Smith, Grace Hayes, and Cherrie Dale, Continuous music will be furnished by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, will be spelled by Roy Lamson's Harvardians, while a complete floor show will be staged by Coconut Grove actors...
...Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story deals with a party to which Duke Ellington's orchestra, of Harlem's famed Cotton Club, are driven in the Fresh Air Taxi, and with the deed to some southern property. It must have been hard to make up and it is wearily told. Typical shot: Amos & Andy in the haunted house...
...casualty was Edward of Wales. In a Fairey 3-F fast bomber piloted by his personal pilot Squadron Leader David S. Don, H. R. H. went up to watch the fighting. In the afternoon he decided to change sides, approached the Blue headquarters of Air Marshal Sir Edward Leonard Ellington. It had been a poor week for fighting planes. A patrol of six fighters defending the Blue base saw a single red bomber approaching. Not recognizing the Prince's plane they dove at it with whoops of joy, raked it with imaginary machine guns, "sat on its tail" in approved...