Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading tutor, he had nothing but praise for his tutees. He talked long about the various hot artists playing here and there. Sad and sentimental over the death of his friend, the immortal Bix Beiderbecke. Louis waxed enthusiastic about Benny Goodman. He admires him not only as a clarinet player but as a white band leader who has had the courage to hire Negro artists such as the pianist Teddy Wilson and the vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, who are to be heard in the superb recordings of Benny Goodman's quartet...
Mentally and emotionally, Robert Wadlow seems to be a normal 19-year-old smalltown boy. He was a star basketball player at Alton High School. He swims well. He does not go boating because the only time he entered a rowboat he foundered it, almost drowning his father and himself. Nor can he join in social sports like tennis. He is too big to go out with girls, so he entertains himself with photography. He likes to have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows...
...CROQUET PLAYER-H. G. Wells- Viking...
...Civilization Triumphant, and in his fashion has been faithful to it ever since. Numerous, in^nious have been his variations on this theme. Last week his 78th book added one more minor version. Used to fat books from Author Wells, readers were surprised at the slimness of The Croquet Player (104 pages), no less surprised by its ambiguous, unWellsian message...
...because talent scouts for the movies and stage are coming up to watch the play. Aroused by the polished entertainment of last year's "The Lid's Off"' they will be looking for men like John Davis Lodge, male load in the 1926 production and currently in Hollywood. One player has already been offered screen tests, while tunes such as "Someday" and "Come Across" are often heard in night clubs and radio programs...