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...style- heavy chording in the bass and light finagling in the treble-of which he is still in perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner, I used to have a racin' form...
...worked for his election in 1940, and several others-knew that his visit concerned anything more vital than studio business. He did go to the beach home of Darryl Zanuck, Fox production head, for five days of discussion devoted mainly to the script of One World. But Lem Jones, his political secretary, who had accompanied him across the country, took up a position some 15 miles east in the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles...
...Mark (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by The Playwrights' Company) is the first successful U.S. war play. Its artistic qualities are debatable, but it is vivid theater, beautifully staged by Director Lem Ward (Uncle Harry, Brooklyn, U.S.A.), and the story it tells, unvarnished in its simplicity, is unbeatable in its appeal. Of late years the flossiest of playwrights, Maxwell Anderson in The Eve of St. Mark has contrived no elaborate plot, essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy. He does not have to. While other playwrights have floundered or gone too far afield to dramatize...
...grim reminder came from WPB. Rubber, which had almost been forgotten in the uproar, might make the gasoline prob-lem academic. At the rate people had been riding around before gas rationing began, rubber was wearing out at the rate of 3½% a month. For the sake of rubber, if not for the sake of gas itself, the whole country is likely soon to face gas rationing. Like the East, it will probably grouse a bit and chisel a bit, for men do not like to have their habits forcibly changed. But in no other country in the world...
...sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...