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...include the Duke among those who were disappointed with the Ellington engagement at the RKO Boston last week. That plushy platform which served as a bandstand might have looked dandy from out front, but it played hob with the section work. Dividing the brasses up with the trumpets on one side and the trombones on the other, putting the saxes in between, and splitting the rhythm section north, east, south, and west, all may have been artistically perfect, but it was acoustically lousy...
Freshman Don Mishara, who won three out of four epee duels last Saturday, will team with Hob Zaugg in the coming meet. The Swordsmen this year have complied an enviable record, winning matches with Columbia and Boston University, and tying...
...multiplied last week, and politics lent a hand to stir the confusion. The House Military Affairs Committee launched a bill forbidding induction of heads of families until all single men, all childless married men in each respective state had been called. A rider forbade induction by occupational groups, played hob with McNutt's plan to force nonessential workers into war industries...
...Government restrictions were raising hob with production. One horror: a $5,000 top on new materials used in the sets in any one picture. To movie directors who once thought nothing of spending $300,000 for stages and costumes in a single musicomedy, this is the end of the line. But the prop boys went to work, are now using such non-Hollywood items as retouched scenery, secondhand lumber, repaired costumes-even unkinked used nails. Besides this WPB has cut film use by 10% to 24%, threatens a still bigger cut next year...
...salary ceiling was raising hob with high-priced stars, directors, writers, producers. At week's end the Treasury Department modified its rules so that movie colonists can earn more in 1942 than in 1941 provided their contracts so specify. But in 1943 no cinestar can earn more than $25,000 net-a figure many of them once got for a single picture. Plain & simple out: lower salaries...