Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pollack was drawing hot music's purists to Chicago's Southmoor Hotel. His band, a future who's who of jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
...Shaw. Last March, while King Goodman and Pretender Shaw fought a battle of music in Newark, N. J. (TIME, March 6), a brand-new band was drawing some discriminating New Jersey jitterbugs to the Meadowbrook Club in neighboring Cedar Grove. Leading it was Ben Pollack's old trombonist, Glenn Miller...
...that made the late Sidney Howard famous. After 15 years it seems (like rooms and houses not seen since childhood) much smaller than memory suggested. It still has fresh and human qualities and a wise moral, but clearly it was the brilliant acting of Pauline Lord, Richard Bennett and Glenn Anders that gave it its original gloss...
...electrical instruments is being tried. Leading the band wagon is Barry Wagner of New York, who has a great many of his ideas patented . . . Mannie Klein, star trumpet player, has his lips insured for $100,000 by Lloyd's of London--and carries around the policy to prove it . . . Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" is selling well and is a very good disc. Incidentally, try anybody on the last chorus who prides himself on being a crack dancer--it is just a wee bit difficult . . . Jimmy Dorsey's record of "Body and Soul" pretty definitely proves Bob Eberle...
Died. Colonel Charles Glenn Collins. 59, Scottish soldier of fortune; in Vicksburg, Miss. His career included action in South Africa with the British Army, marriage with one U. S. heiress and three foiled elopements with another (the fourth succeeded), World War decoration by England, France and Canada, extradition in 1923 to India to stand trial for an $18,000 jewelry fraud (later acquitted), eventual domestication with a third wife in Mississippi...