Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...
...avoid having two people playing the same style on the same instrument, there was no real opportunity to appraise Ray Nance's or newcomer Harold Baker's hot trumpet work. Which is just as well, as Rex Stewart stopped the show with his famous solo on "Boy Meets Horn." Rex did the best soloing of the evening, hitting new lows, in notes, that is. Nance played the violin instead, on "Bakiff," and came very close to persuading me that a violin can play jazz. With Nance and Juan Tizol's trombone, "Bakiff" was infinitely more successful than on records...
...stage, Duke in 20 years has made practically no concessions to public taste. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1899. His father, a retired Navy Yard blueprint worker, was comparatively well off. The Ellington family owned its own home and even an auto with a bulb horn. Ellington was given piano lessons at the age of six but went through high school expecting to be a painter...
...Witness. In Smithsburg, Md., deputies Kenneth Stangle and Howard Horn arrived too late to witness a street fight but in time to hear it; a neighbor had hung a mike out his window, made a recording of the whole thing. "Terrific," decided Horn, who planned to play it for the judge...
...better term for it. A young, naive Frenchman, Joseph Timar, goes out to work at the Equatorial African trading post of Libreville. At the town's only hotel, he stares at the grinning masks on the walls, cranks up a phonograph with a big, old-fashioned horn, drinks his first "peg" of whiskey and feels like a young rakehell. The feeling increases when Proprietress Adèle comes to wake him, wearing her usual black silk dress and no underclothing. Mutual captivation follows instantly...