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...brief, that was Jelly Roll's story. Bordello pianist ("professor"), pool-playing shark and pimp, he was in & out of trouble all his life. In his most glorious days, in the '20s, when such youngsters as Benny Goodman and Bix Beiderbecke gathered around to hear Jelly's style ("Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm"), he was "all in diamonds." As his wife Mabel Bertrand recalls: "His watch was circled in diamonds. His belt buckle was in gold and studded with diamonds. He even had sock-supporters of solid gold set with diamonds. Then...
...Classical Players, putting amazing enthusiasm into the work of their "poor dead author" Plautus, have come up with another sparkling evening of Roman comedy. Imaginative acting, skilful direction, and just enough pantomime to help foreigners understand what is happening have brought to life a plot involving a pimp, his ward, her lover, and an ingenious slave who wants to unite the lovers and demonstrate his own shrewdness...
...slave Pseudolus, is the perfect clown. He is stealthy one moment, moronic the next; when he comes out in the last scene balancing a bottle of Schlitz on his head and drinking from a hot-water bag, even the most non-Roman audience cannot help laughing. John Rexine, the pimp, brandishes his curses and his whip as if he had done nothing else all his life, and Paul Broneer and Joe Dallett, as the dupe and his swaggering impersonator, are well-cast. The love scene between Arthur Millward and Brooks Emmons is a spicy reminder that the Romans weren...
Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman took some personal fury to the floor. He waved a copy of the Kalamazoo Gazette, which quoted Michigan's Democratic John Lesinski as saying that "Hoffman is a pimp of Joe Stalin." Hoffman complained for 40 minutes before Lesinski got a word...
...merely that Hoffman "had no more authority than a rabbit" to act as a one-man committee to investigate labor trouble in Michigan. To this Lesinski had added: "That to me is what Mr. Hitler tried to do to the unions in Germany . . . And Mr. Hitler was a pimp of Joe Stalin, a prostitute...