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Must we hate the enemy to win the war? That debate was going on, hotly and heavily, in the New York Times. The affirmative had been opened by Rex Stout, bewhiskered detective story writer, chairman of the Writers' War Board, with an article called We Shall Hate, or We Shall Fail...
...feature the soloists in the orchestra. But as Duke was so careful to avoid having two people playing the same style on the same instrument, there was no real opportunity to appraise Ray Nance's or newcomer Harold Baker's hot trumpet work. Which is just as well, as Rex Stewart stopped the show with his famous solo on "Boy Meets Horn." Rex did the best soloing of the evening, hitting new lows, in notes, that is. Nance played the violin instead, on "Bakiff," and came very close to persuading me that a violin can play jazz. With Nance...
Lacking food, the Danes still had a king. On his 72nd birthday, Sept. 26, Christian, the elder brother of Norway's Haakon, sent a curt answer to Hitler's flowery message of good will. The answer: "Thank you, Christian, Rex." This week Christian lay injured by a fall from his horse* and the Nazis had applied new pressures to make Denmark a "model province" of the Third Reich...
Also planned is a play by Louis Eno '44 based on the parallel between the Pelloponesian war and the present conflict, and a series of adaptations of great plays, starting with "Oedipus Rex," which will probably be given two weeks after the series opens...
Noteworthy reactions to hulking, humorless Novelist Theodore Dreiser's damnation of the British war effort, in which he said he preferred Nazi rule in Britain to rule by "aristocratic, horse-riding snobs": Pearl Buck, Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, F.P.A., other members of the Writers' War Board said the Dreiser remarks were "sabotage," possibly "treasonable," observed "our enemies would pay him well for his disservice to our country's cause." And from London piped George Bernard Shaw: "To say that Dreiser's comments regarding the war are furiously inaccurate is only to say that they are like...