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...Time, whose February issue contained a salute to the Original Dixieland Jazz Band as the organization whence swing music sprang full-born, was stating a belief also widely held by jazz reactionaries, academicians and purists. Most of "Red" Nichols' recordings during his great period in 1922-28 (Ida, Back Beats, Alice Blue Gown) are available on re-issued Brunswick records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Devils," goes in for the usual he-man McLaglen activities with the Coast Guard offering a convenient excuse for several good shots of icebergs, ships in distress, breeches buoy, and dozens of manly blows between the smiling Tim O'Shay, (Preston Foster) and Bo'suns Mate Malone (McLaglen). Ida Lupino as "Doris," Malone's daughter, acts as a rather insipid if adequate apex of the eternal triangle over which Malone, the father, tries to exercise parental influence. In spite of the overworked sickbed, hero, and may-the-best-man-win falderol the picture is satisfactory and fills the time between...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/6/1937 | See Source »

...campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy indulgence" by Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. increased from 17.6% in the year ending April 1932, to 23.8% in the year ending last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Front Man | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Complete literary memorabilia concerning the late Army Lowell, poetess comprising one of the most important available sources of information about modern movements and prominent figures in literature and art, have been presented to the University Library by Miss Lowell's literary executrix, Mrs. Ida Russell, of Brookline, it was announced Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...IDA W. BATCHELDER Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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