Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second dance of the year on Friday night. Again, Don Gahan's music will be featured. The Union Committee, in conjunction with the dance, is conducting a poll among the members of the class to determine their favorite swing band. Thus far, Artie Shaw, the newest fad in popular music, is leading in votes. The musical arrangements of the winning orchestra will be played for one half hour during the evening...
...figures. These portraits are much more than more recitals of the chief events in the men's lives. They rather attempt to evaluate the influence of their previous experiences on the events in which these soldiers took a leading part. Captain Hart attempts to pierce the enveloping mist of popular applause and adulation to present the war leaders as they really were. With an almost too brutal frankness are exposed the stupidity of Joffre in failing to provide adequate defenses at Verdun, and the incredible obstinacy of General Pershing in insisting that the United States Army fight as a separate...
Swing music has been given official recognition with the addition of popular recordings to the Theatre Collection in Widener Library under the direction of Mrs. Lillian A. Hall, Custodian of the Theatre Collection...
...Hall has announced that she has devoted $250 of the Rogers Fund, which is at the disposal of the Theatre Collection, to buy popular recordings which can be studied systematically by made students and ordinary jitter-bugs...
...present the listeners will be asked to comment informally on the various differences in the treatment of popular compositions and the soloists will come in for special consideration along with the "song stylists" or crooners...