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...Crosby item has on one side a rather effectively weird, or maybe it's weirdly effective, piece by the arranger for the band, Bob Haggart, who calls it "Chain Gang." Tomtoms thump throughout, and there is some raucous muted trumpeting by Yank Lawson, who has heard Cootie Williams play. The reverse is an arrangement for the orchestra of the beautiful piano improvisation by Jess Stacy called "Ec-Stacy," which was recorded nearly three years ago. This remake stars Stacy again, but although it is an attractive, easily swinging performance, it has lost most of the expressiveness of the original, largely...
...album of six records by one of the top U. S. rhythm bands. Noteworthy items : I'm Prayin' Humble, a richly orchestrated hymn originated by Mitchell's Christian Singers (TIME, Jan. 2); The Big Noise from Winnetka, dog-house fiddle and drum duet by Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc...
Mackerel Skies (by John Haggart; George Bushar and John Tuerk, producers). What has happened before the play begins: Elsa (Violet Kemble Cooper), hot-blooded Austrian noblewoman, marries a prince, has a daughter (Carol Stone) by a peasant (Tom Powers), exhausts the prince's fortune in pursuit of a singing career, deserts prince & peasant to marry a Manhattan broker, fails dismally as a diva. What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous...
...yard dash.-F. F. Williams '20, W. R. Swart '19, W. W. Haggart '19, F. W. Hall...
...Foss. Chairman, and Miss Burdett, P. P. Baird and Miss Woodward, W. W. Haggart and Miss Wilson, J. B. Hatton and Miss Wright, C. N. Schmalz and Miss Gilbert, P. E. Thayer and Miss Summers, A. S. Wonson and Miss Wonson...