Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ellington's date at the Roseland broke all records for the place, with nearly 2000 people. The sax section was in very poor shape owing to the absence of Otto Hardwicke. From this engagement and the RKO Boston show, it is certain that Harold Baker and Betty Roche will be sensations just as soon as Duke can start making records again...
Macfadden, profiting on a poor turn by Ford, edged out his rival in the 100 in the good, but not record-breaking, time of 52.1. Blue natators took every other event on the card, but Crimson swimmers, notably Barnes and George Christman, who placed in both the 220 and 440, gave good performances...
Weakest spot is short-wave radio. The transmission is often weak and reception poor. The Nazis have some 100 transmitters to the U.S.'s 21. But OWI cares more about quality of reception than quantity, in this way: from private sources OWI knows that one Norwegian underground operator will be listening in-perhaps in his basement, perhaps on a mountainside. He does not need his news "angled": he just wants the truth. When he gets the news he fans it out to others-by letters, seditious handbills, etc. With the Nazi death penalty enforced for listeners to U.S. news...
...March on Rome, Peter Blume was there. Traveling on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he saw among Rome's ruins many things that stayed with him, from a scowling papier mache image of II Duce to a tawdry effigy of Christ adorned with trinkets by Italy's praying poor. Back in the U.S., Blume spent two years pondering what he had seen, the next three years painting the vivid, swarming detail of The Eternal City with its popeyed Mussolini...
...major role without shutting himself up for hours before the performance, going over every detail with meticulous care. Said he: "I have a great responsibility to the audience. I would not go out to a nightclub the evening before I sing. If I did, and my performance was poor, it would be my fault...