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...could do any better himself, he should come in and try. Grynwich marched to the station. Last week the Sunday Symphony Hour went off without a hitch. The slow, deliberate, fairly rich voice of the announcer, who was very right about his musical lore, belonged to Announcer William (Grynwich) Grayson...
...stage-struck eldest, wants the reporter's hand because she thinks that he can put her name in lights. The middle five, slaves of an old Dutch custom giving first chance to the eldest, aid & abet the match for all their high Cs are worth although Billie (Kathryn Grayson), the youngest, loves him just for himself, but cannot bear to offend tradition by making off with...
...dreams"-the Negroes' "trouble music." That meant New Orleans' famed Basin Street and its U.S. equivalent of jungle music. The picture begins in Basin Street in 1907 with the removal to Chicago of Adolphe Menjou, his piano-playing daughter (Bonita Granville) and her blues-singing mammy (Jessie Grayson...
...Mammy Grayson croons a pair of standout melodies (Goin' To Chicago and Only Worry For a Pillow), and the picture's other Negro artists are first-rate- especially a young Negro boy with a trumpet, knee-deep in Bach at a New Orleans music academy. He loathes the formalized Bach exercises, wants to play his kind of music. After a few bars he does, riding away, loud and low, right out of the academy...
...sleuths had been entered by stealth and pilfered with profit. Almost worse, two detectives of the city police force succeeded where the Federal men had failed, snagged a Negro porter who, they claimed, confessed the theft. The loot: two expensive miniature cameras, a telephoto lens. The accused: Charles Beverly Grayson, a WPA porter who had once worked at the Federal Court House, New York headquarters...