Word: hofbrau
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...suggestion that this department investigate the Art Hodes bend at the Hofbrau in Lawrence, Mass, was undoubtedly a partial violation of the cardinal Army axiom. "Keep your mouth shut and don't volunteer." Hence the fate that so often overtakes the sealous committee member who dreams up an idea and gets elected to the job of seeing it through...
...piece jam band (the boys don't bother with the formality of written music) is that it includes two Negroes. Mixed bands are nothing new on records, or even in a few New York spots, but what impressed me was that Joe Wagon bach, proprietor of the Hofbrau, and the polyracial population of Lawrence, a town busily engaged in defense work even as Detroit, Beaumont, and Mobile, accept the band strictly on its merit, with no comment one way or another on the fact that it is a black-and-white band and will stay that way. And business, incidentally...
Butler who obviously follows the commendable pattern of Louis Armstrong's 1930-1931 Okeh recordings, draws more applause with his vocal and instrumental work during the floor show than any of the regular acts. (Oh, yes--the Hofbrau is a converted theatre and the floor show starts around...
...late Manhattan restaurant keeper ("Janssen Wants to See You"), Werner Janssen pounded and hacked his way to a musical career, over the grim opposition of his father, who wanted him to carry on in Janssen's Hofbrau. In the early 1930s the younger Janssen made his splash with Europe's great orchestras, was rated tops in playing Sibelius, by the great Finn himself. But when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony tried him in 1934, Janssen failed to click. He went to Hollywood, wrote the score for The General Died At Dawn, married Actress Ann Harding. For two years...
Network officials, who expect "Swing Out" to become one of their most popular programs, have already scheduled entertainers from the Hofbrau House to take over part of Wednesday's show. Plans are also under way for a Harvard Hit Parade, which will be heard on Thursday afternoons...