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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Star of the band is the Ella, or "Tisket A Tasket" Fitzgerald. Ella, besides being a nice kid personally, is a real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about...
...Heard the new Casa Loma (Decca) album and it was well worth it. With the exception of Murray McEachern, trombone-sax man recently acquired from Benny Goodman, the band doesn't play much swing. But it does play a great deal of the ensemble work that made it famous as a dance outfit and for excellent commercial. Catch Louis Armstrong's duet with PeeWee Hunt for the difference between someone that phrases and one that just sings . . . Also heard the Victor Herbert album, and while it isn't swing, it is swell melodic stuff--recorded perfectly and done in admirable...
...Fire, Fire! Catastrophe!" The clang of a muffled bell fang out through the night. Vag, wandering down Holyoke Street, stopped short in his tracks. Screams of women and shouts of men could be heard coming from the innermost recesses of the Big Tree Swimming Pool. A man of action, Vag sprang to the rescue, dashed down a side alley, and burst through a small door at the rear of the Big Tree. Acrid smoke filled his nostrils. But undaunted, he staggered on through a dark corridor shouting, "Everybody keep calm. Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit...
...recent Gallup poll which announced that half the people of the U. S. approve of gambling, in church or out. He saw that, out of more than 200 Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops, not more than a dozen or so banned Bingo as a means of raising money. He heard that priests in Trenton, N. J. defied police attempting to enforce the law against gambling, were backed up by a grand jury; that "bingo-mad" women in Detroit hissed, hooted, flew at raiding police; that in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, legislators were urged to legalize games like Bingo...
...Ontario, Calif., Mrs. lola Martin stepped out of her mother's house, heard a clatter on the roof, was almost hit by twelve perch which slid off the eaves. Overhead a flock of cranes flapped hurriedly away...