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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dream," Woolley said however that the part "may resemble Alexander Woolcott, but is certainly not a portrait of him." He considers that the play has been much improved since Kaufman and Hart did the third act over: "The audience expects laughs all the way through, and now they get them...
...Swing's harmful little armful" drifted into town this week. The one and only Thomas "Fats" Waller is at the Southland with his band. And don't get the impression that when you go down there, you're going to hear fourteen or fifteen men earnestly endeavoring to blow their (and your) heads off. Far from this, Fats carries only six men in his band. But between some really mad kidding around, they get off some swell jazz for both listening and dancing...
...long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play a lot of very fast and fancy right hand work, leaving the rhythm and the chord changes of the left hand to the bass and guitar...
...cats' meow: This week Red Norvo announced that he was sick and tired of the cut-throat competition in jazz and the necessity of playing what he considered to be rotten music in order to get a lot of work, and announced that he was from now on going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give...
Another Bates game starter may yield his starting place against the Maroons in the battle at right end. Bart Kelly has shown a slight edge over Devine in practice this week, and may get the call...