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...sold all her fine clothes, jewels and furniture to pay her debts, but she still owed thousands of pesetas. Street urchins mocked, "Yah, yah. Marquesita," as she trudged to work each morning. But the kind nuns in the hospital gave Carmen a brief smile as she pushed her rag over the tile floor...
...party. But it depends on whether you consider the party of the first part or the party of the second part after getting out the current issue of the Lampoon. It was pretty gay the night we put the last page of the old rag to bed. The whole gang returned from Bar Harbor--without tans, of course, except for Joe Klowernig who somehow always managed to do the wrong things. Not that he wasn't a nice guy, but Joe somehow didn't seem to fit in. As the party went along (I guess we'd call...
...Today or wander placidly through Bix Beiderbecke's jazz classic, In a Mist. Then he changes his pace. As Sutton explains it, "When the crowd gets with me, I begin bearing down." Sutton, bearing down on such ragtime standards as Ballin' the Jack or Maple Leaf Rag, delivers some of the solidest gutbucket piano being pounded out today...
Sharkey's Southern Comfort (Sharkey Bonano; Capitol; 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). One of New Orleans' favorite jazz combos helps prove, with spirited renditions of Temptation Rag, Basin Street Blues and four others, that the Dixieland tradition still flourishes in its old home town...
...rest of the Advocate is mediocre. James Chace's "The Mariner," a story about a little boy in a sailboat who finds a body, is a humid mass of sensory impressions thrown like a wet rag at the reader; the boy, boat, and body get lost in the flood. William Morgan's "The Cowgirl" is a long synoptic anecdote about a girl from Alabama who goes to New York with a man named Goldstein and ends up shooting at him through a bathroom door. The humor of the piece hangs largely on the contrast between the girls' quaint narrative style...