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...Outline of Mrs. Roosevelt's April itinerary: at least seven visits to Manhattan, four to Brooklyn (to see son Franklin), two to Hyde Park, one each to Boston, Nashville, Trenton, Richmond, Hampton, Va., with various stop-offs between trips in Washington...
...Pollack divulged in an interview that Benny Goodman used to play cornet occasionally in the most exciting Bix Beiderbecke vein. Of late, the program has included at times a record-spotting quiz, at which this column will be represented tomorrow, along with Count Basic, Al Morgan, and perhaps Lionel Hampton...
Last week the Savoy had high hopes of bringing in Lionel Hampton's sextet, part of his large band, without Lionel himself, who was ill. Evidently his band, which played at the Bermuda Terrace recently, was in danger of breaking up, as well. But the deal is off, and now Sabby Lewis's band will make a triumphant return to Boston. Lewis was at the Savoy in the fall, you may remember, before going into Kelly's Stable, right in the midst of the musical heat of West 52nd Street in New York. This band pays much more attention...
...heartily agree with Sailor Hampton [who in TIME, Letters, Nov. 24, pointed out how much money was lost by workers striking for higher wages] who has a lot of Horse sense with a capital H. Having belonged to the union of my particular trade over a long period I was out during three major strikes, and the things my family and self had to do without can never be made...
...running. Last week one of their Manhattan agents, Associated Music Publishers, rushed out a new score, a photo-offset reprint of a Breitkopf & Härtel edition (Mozart's Magic Flute overture), selling for $8.50 and labeled "the only authorized American reprint." A.M.P. vowed to beat Hampton prices all along the line, at a loss if necessary...