Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorothy Claire will round out Byrne's smoothly styled music as the band's featured vocalist. Even before the recent controversy between Byrnes' and Glenn Miller, who tried to sign Miss Claire while she was under contract to Byrnes, she was known to all musically minded America for her sweet singing and tantalizing personality...
...that way any more. Give me the Andrews Sisters!" Well, there's a lot of truth that. Very few bands play the way Jimmy McPartland plays today, and more's the pity. Certainly it's an old-fashioned style; and if you prefer the stereotyped, lifeless riff tunes of Glenn Miller, Les Brown, and Artie Shaw, that's your prerogative. Me, I'll take the old stuff, and if you're on my side, you'll do well to go down to Nick's, for there you'll find the best living example of what is generally known...
...spending of more than $800 for an orchestra. No name band will play for this money. The allowance should be raised to $1500, and one of the country's best outfits hired. This is the initial step toward making this weekend the blow-out that it should be. Glenn Miller is really something to take a girl to; Raymond Scott, who seems likely to get the job, is just another dance band...
...some extremely sincere and convincing portrayals. Frederic March as the indomitable Steiner does some of the best acting in his career. Margaret Sullivan, the perennial refugee, is her usually beautifully serious self. Eric Von Stroheim succeeds in making himself as repulsive as a good Nazi should be. And young Glenn Ford, who is relatively new in movies, handles what might almost be considered the lead with a naivete and spontaneity which will probably not last long in Hollywood...
...regards the jazz they played. Duke Ellington is still ahead of his time, and because his contributions as a composer have scarcely been limited by Tin Pan Alley standards, the public has yet to realize the superiority of Ellington's music over the innocuous offerings of men like Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey. And then, of course, there's Jack Teagarden...