Word: jazzbands
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...swimming in the palace pool, playing Monopoly with his friends and producing such slapstick comedies as Two Murders in the Maginot Line. As a special treat for visiting VIPs, His Majesty plays one of his own compositions (e.g., Love Without Hope) on the alto sax, accompanied by his private jazzband...
...terms. The Firebird, Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky's best ballet scores, were commissioned. He has composed a polka for elephants for the Ringling Brothers, a Scherzo á la Russe for Paul Whiteman, Ballet Scenes for Billy Rose, an Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his jazzband. Scherzo á la Russe was written to fit one side of a Whiteman record (says Stravinsky: "He played it very badly. He has a very famous name but he is a very bad musician...
Divorced. Dorothy Lamour (real name: Dorothy Slaton), 24, sloe-eyed cinemactress; by Herbie Kay (real name: Herbert D. Kaumeyer), 30, sweet jazzband leader; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...been absolutely banned. Negro jazz bands are not permitted; swing music has been publicly damned. But records by Josephine Baker, Guy Lombardo. Victor Young, Benny Goodman, Leo Reisman are still selling in Germany, as are the sheet-music compositions of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. And British-born "sweet" Jazzband Leader Jack Hylton recently finished a two-month engagement at one of Berlin's variety show houses...
...time this year's municipal primaries rolled around, a rightist revolt was in the air. Mayor Dore sought re-election backed again by rough and ruddy Boss Beck and the A. F. of L.'s Lieut.-Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime jazzband leader who had enlivened previous candidacies with promises of hostesses on owl street cars and flower pots on fire hydrants, ran with the backing of the C. I. O., the organized unemployed and the left-wing Washington Commonwealth Federation. Councilman Langlie's candidacy was based on the belief that the electorate was fed up with...