Word: roseland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some fine arrangements done for them by a Harvard Med. School student. Place usually has some good dancers and a singer who gets away with a good imitation of Helen Morgan. . . Raymor Ballroom while inhabitated by jitterbugs and the like, has some good jazz in Les Brown's band. . . Roseland State Ballroom much the same type as the Raymor, this place also does pretty well with Tommy Reynold's an Artic Shaw imitator. . . Sonny Burke, a Duke University product who does just as well as his predecessor, Les Brown, is playing at the Atlantic Ballroom in Revere. Good dance music...
Swing situation around Beantown gets a real dose of aspirin as three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...
Alexander hasn't played much in this territory before. As a matter of fact, the band hasn't been outside of New York City--but at the Roseland Ballroom there, it played for some weeks this summer to very heavy crowds. And don't let anyone kid you--no band is a success at the Roseland unless they are good. It, the Glen Island Casino on Long Island Sound, and the Palamar Ballroom on the Pacific Coast are considered the band-making spots of the country...
...local music possibilities, the Raymor Ballroom, in addition to its usual large supply of doeith young women, will offer some really good bands. Red Nichols is there now...The Roseland State right around the corner, will continue to bring in big names. But their poster advertising is so poor that one finds out about Glenn Miller's orchestra not earlier than two days after it is gone . . . No word ensues from the Southland, traditional hangout for Harvard men. It is to be hoped, however, that they do as well as last year in giving Boston a chance to hear music...
Nebraska: Richard L. Hall, 16, of Roseland; Roseland Consolidated High School...