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...Marlowe Morris (piano), Sidney Catlett and Joe Jones (drums), Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax), Red Callender and John Simmons (bass), Harry Edison (trumpet), Barney Kessel (guitar...
...operetta" of this type owes a debt to Gilbert and Sullivan. The present composer, Mr. Maurice Jacquet, puts his opus in that debtor class though, no doubt, unintentionally. Traces of those British gentlemen and of Johann Strauss abound. But in spite of these resemblances, the songs have a freshness and a catchy quality not to be credited most other imitators...
Died. Mme. Jacquet, 88, sister of Georges Clémenceau; in Paris...
Eventually this discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense...
...regiment stationed at Tourelles had written to the War Ministry that he found it impossible, in that region, to obtain an acceptable male cook. Was there, the Colonel sought to know, any permissible alternative? He enclosed without comment the photograph and the credentials of a woman, Mme. Jacquet...