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Five or ten years ago when Louis Prima was still involved in the unprofitable business of playing jazz, he was no more important than any other "paesano" to the vast Italian population of this country. But just two weeks ago, when the agents of WHCN went in town to get the New Orleans-born trumpet man for their Jazz Orgy, the stage entrance was literally jammed with enthusiastic autograph seekers from Hanover Street...
Along with Eddie Miller, Wingy Mannone, Irving Fazola, and Nappy Lamare, Prima belongs to the second generation of hot musicians from the New Orleans white district. He grew up on the strong musical diet of "Papa" Laine, Dave Perkins, "Yellow" Nunez, "Stale Bread" Lacoume and others of that calibre, who played in what has been called the New Orleans white style...
Like garlie in a pizza pie, however, a little goes a long way. When it is laid on as thickly as Prima has been laying it lately, even the most voracious bobby socker gets indigestion. Prima has taken away all of the high rolling rhythms and sweeping operatic phrases which make the latinized jazz of latter-day N.O.W. jazz sparkle and has left only those bawdier mannerisms associated with the fruit man on the corner...
Franz Josef's Command. Jeritza, a Moravian, was born Mitzi Jedlicka, a name she glamorized after she became a Viennese prima donna. Emperor Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca...
...Save the King because "that's the only tune they know." Victory arches go up, rose petals flutter down from the rooftops, richly bedizened elephants, camels, mounted guards of honor accompany the Hollywood float in which Jinnah rides. Today Jinnah, and not the hated Hindu Gandhi, is prima donna on India's stage...