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. . . Anyone who read the article entitled "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho" in the Jan. 20 issue of TIME, could scarce help carrying away the impression that: 1) Benny Goodman caused the present mild interest in swinging. 2) That Benny has the best swing band in the world. 3) That...
Fremstad was not forced by financial needs to offer her costumes for sale last week. She seemed loathe to break her collection even for the Museum of the City of New York or the Metropolitan Opera, both avid for her famed Isolde costume. Most passe singers are more pathetic than...
Gambling on the public's reaction to Becky Sharp at the world premiere of that all-color film at Manhattan's Music Hall last week, hundreds of Wall Streeters took a flier in Technicolor stock on the New York Curb. If John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Pioneer...
Since the December number of the "American Mercury" is the last issue of the magazine which H. L. Mencken will edit, the most pertinent and interesting feature in this copy, naturally, is his farewell editorial. In it he briefly but gracefully reviews his ten year term as editor, which, on...
From Mr. Hammond and Mr. Atkinson come the reports that "Ah Wilderness" is not what it might be, and that George M. Cohan carries the play by himself, making the evening quite pleasant. The greatest contemporary American play-wright,--so I have heard--Eugene O'Neill, has a difficult task...