Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Edward Claudius ("Ned") Wayburn, 68, veteran Broadway director, the U.S. theater's most famed dance teacher of the '205; in Manhattan. Once a ragtime pianist, he was 28 when he directed his first show (the Four Cohans in The Governor's Son). He looked like a banker, directed like a mule skinner. He helped the Shuberts, Klaw & Erlanger, and Florenz Ziegfeld pretty up their musicals; taught stage technique to such greats as Marilyn Miller, the Astaires, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson; was thrice a millionaire, once a bankrupt...
Five years ago Composer-Bandleader Scott rose almost overnight from obscurity to become the talk of the smart jazz set. A staff pianist for six years in Columbia Broadcasting's Manhattan studios, Scott formed a six-man "Quintet" in December 1936, began composing and broadcasting sharp, rhythmic, unsingable pieces with wacky titles (War Dance for Wooden Indians, Bumpy Weather Over Newark, Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals...
...Chicago, to marry a young man with a horn (Jackie Cooper) and follow him through to the triumph of the modern dance band, story and music never get together. There is too much history to be got over. Furthermore, Miss Granville neither looks nor acts like a hot pianist...
Brahms: Six Intermezzi and Two Rhapsodies (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor; 8 sides). Gruff, warmhearted Brahms is revealed in these rugged romantic works of small-scale architecture, played with fire, poetry, complete authority...
Died. Emil von Sauer, 79, famed concert pianist of the '90s; of a heart attack; in Vienna...