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Classically trained. Harpsichordist Marlowe learned about jazz from Purist John Henry Hammond Jr., became so good that she played an engagement last spring at Manhattan's Rainbow Room. When "Jelly Roll'' Morton, famed Negro pianist, heard one of her records, he argued: "That couldn't be a white man playing, and it certainly couldn't be a woman.'' Boogie-woogie, with its classic repeated bass figures, its percussive attack, seemed to Miss Marlowe just right for the harpsichord. Radio listeners agreed...
...John Hammond, pinko, Negrophile, jazz-purist and talent scout for Columbia, WPA seemed insulting to workers, degrading to Negroes. "It's inciting everything that's lousy," proclaimed Mr. Hammond, and took steps. He asked Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. to alter the offensive lyrics. They refused. Thereupon Mr. Hammond squashed a projected Columbia recording of the song, and called the cops-the New York local of the American Federation of Musicians...
...dilute it almost out of existence with luke-warm plot-material and sensational pap. In contrast, the French-made movie, "Marseillaise," has happily succeeded in making the truth palatable without jazzing it up or cheapening it. The result is a feast alike for the uncritical moviegoer and the historical purist. The film makes no pretense at being complete or prophetic, but confines itself to a few brief months during 1789, the so-called "honeymoon of the Revolution," focussing interest on the adventures of a Marseilles citizen army. Without an excessive amount of flag-waving, it waxes enthusiastic over the fraternal...
...Nonobjective" art is the purist's name for abstract art in which no trace of actuality remains. A cubist breakdown of the statutory cubist wine bottle and guitar would not qualify. Solomon Guggenheim had grown grey in philanthropy and the copper business before he fell for his first nonobjective painting about eleven years ago. Since then he has accumulated 726 of them, the world's biggest private collection. His guide and friend in non-objectivity has been a fortyish, fervent lady artist, the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen...
...ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION. With Statesman Stimson thus eliminating himself, the way was open for the League Assembly to elect a jurist against whom it could not well be argued that he was "political" and narrowly represented his country's interests on the World Court bench. Last week purist Geneva internationalists and League Secretariat members were immensely pleased when a Man from Missouri, Dr. Manley Ottmer Hudson, 50, a graduate of William Jewell College at Liberty, Mo. and of Harvard Law School, was elected to succeed as a Judge of the World Court onetime U. S. Secretary of State Frank...