Word: luxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canaan, Conn. William E. Fuller, Jr. Barbara Jordan, Bancroft George H. L. Gerard Norma Chapiro, New York, N. Y. Howard R. Gleason Elizabeth Stearns, North Cohasset John W. Green Virginia Getz, Morton, Ill. E. Pierce Johnson Sally Chamberlin, Belmont Robert D. Kemble Sally Foss, Concord Ernest A. Mitchell Gerry Lux, Radcliffe Horace Morison, Jr. Grace Eddy, Boston Robert C. Rodger Alice Angelo, Newton Donald G. Schnabel, Jr. Charlotte Taylor, Tufts William P. Slichter Katherine Varrell, Smith Frants Sporon-Fiedler Mary Bush, Dedham Edward M. Taylor June Straw, Hampton Falls, N. H. Wilbur F. Tiemann, Jr. Jerry Hess, Newark, Ohio Louis...
Hall has just made four twelve-inch sides for Blue Note Records, playing in a quartet which includes Meade Lux Lewis on celeste, Charlie Christians on electric guitar, and Israel Crosby on string bass. The combination, as you can see, is quite exceptional, and the music is awfully interesting. The four tunes, "Profoundly Blue," "Celestial Express," "Jamming in Four," and "Edmond Hall Blues" are all blues, two slew and two fast, and Hall is the star on everyone, although Lux Lewis' delicate celeste work is an unusual departure from the heavy beat of ordinary boogie-woogie Collectively, the boys weave...
...novelties (COLUMBIA) . . . Speaking of boogie-woogie, COLUMBIA has just released an album of reissues. Offerings include the Harry James Trio (Albert Ammons, Harry James, Johnny Williams, Eddie Dougherty); Pete Johnson and Joe Turner on Roll 'Em Pete; and the two-sided Boogie-Woogie Prayer, featuring Johnson, Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis. These records are vastly superior to the ones put out in the older Decca Album . . . Cootie Williams plays trumpet and sings on Benny Goodman's COLUMBIA recording of Let the Door Knob Hitoha. Cootie's vocal is fine, but just try and figure out the lyrics. Reverse is Perfidia...
...name of the picture at the Trans-Lux fool you; it's called Virgin Bride, and it means just that. If you go with the intention of seeing a first rate, slightly risque comedy you won't be disappointed. But if you leave the Square with your tongue hanging out and a white foam drooling from your lips, you'll probably tear the seats out of the theatre before you've sat through half of the show. Because the sad truth is, Walter Winchell to the contrary notwithstanding, Virgin Bride is not the kind of show that will take much...
...written serial The Aldrich Family (sixth), the schmalz of Band Leader Kay Kyser (ninth), the soap-opera One Man's Family (tenth). Beating the graven image Charlie McCarthy by a whisker, Jack Benny led the pack for 1940. Others in Crossley's peerage: Fibber McGee & Molly, the Lux Radio Theatre, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Major Bowes...