Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play on the old steamer service plying between New York and Fall River, which ceased operations in 1937. Things of grandeur in their prime, in their latter days the old boats still aroused the affectionate exasperation of a large public. One frequent passenger cracked that the Priscilla was held together by the strip of red carpet in her main saloon...
William Saroyan, who also writes, prepared to send up another Saroyanesque rocket after a long, tense quiet. Out next fortnight: a new play (not yet produced), called Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine. "The action takes place in a transparent egg shell," announced Publishers Harcourt, Brace in ventriloquial tones, "inside which are miserable and majestic ruins, representing immemorial and immediate reality...
...need no rehearsals," he crowed. "I don't go through that and never will. All these cats I'm playing with can blow. We don't need no arrangements. I just say, man, what you going to play? They say Musk'at Ramble. I say follow me, and you got the best arrangement you ever heard...
...Take them re-bop* boys. They're great technicians. Mistakes-that's all re-bop is. Man, you've gotta be a technician to know when you make 'em. . . . New York and 52nd Street-that's what messed up jazz. Them cats play too much music -a whole lot of notes, weird notes. . . . That don't mean nothing. . . . You've got to carry a melody...
...members of the NSO Continuations Committee, set up last December to call the convention, Douglass Cater '46 1 P.A., Clifford R. Wharton, Jr. '47, and Donald S. Wilner '47; will play prominent roles at the Madison meetings...