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...author, Fletcher Henderson used to be his arranger, and it con be ruled an excellent copy of an excellent arrangement... Bluebird turns out a very fine release this week with the famous "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Lux Lewis, another boogie record by Pinetop Smith, and "Rosetta" with an all-star band. Fine jazz plus excellent recording make this tips...Catch the Duke's recording of "Aint The Gravy Fine" (Vocalion) if you want nice bounce rhythm and a salacious vocal ... After a little checking of master plate numbers, confirmed my guess that jimmy Dorsey's "Arkansas Traveler" was recorded...
Onetime home port for Scarface Al Capone's mob, Cicero, Ill. has become a U. S. household synonym for murder and vice. There fell Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin under gangland bullets. Frank Capone, Al's brother, died violently there. Musicomedienne Rosetta Duncan had her nose smashed there. Last week Cicero turned over a new political leaf...
...BOHEME, made in Italy by Italian singers, the Scala Chorus and the Milan Symphony conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $26)-One of the most satisfying of opera releases. Soprano Rosetta Pampanini (Mimi) and Tenor Luigi Marini (Rodolfo) sing in the approved Italian manner. The recording is excellent...
...tablets in a field at Glozel, France. Immediately the "Glozel Finds" attracted world wide attention. French archeologists announced that they were important relics of the Stone Age, wrote monographs. British and French illustrated weeklies printed elaborate facsimiles of the Glozel tablets, compared them in importance to Egypt's Rosetta Stone, Britain's Piltdown skull. Gaston Bayle was not impressed. With his test tubes, his X-rays, his spectroscopes, he proved that the Glozel finds were not more than 15 years old, and clumsy forgeries at that...
Prince Mohammed Ah Ibrahim of Egypt is a spectacular figure in Europe's baccarat belt. He traces his ancestry back to Mehemet Ali Pasha, the "Terrible Turk" who conquered all Egypt in 1805, beat the British at Rosetta, decorated the streets of Cairo with the bluish severed heads of British soldiers. Prince Ibrahim disregards his cousin, Egypt's plump King Fuad I, nor is he interested in Egyptian politics. On an income of $150,000 a year, he confines his interests to champagne, roulette, a beautiful wife and numerous attractive friends. Also he takes a sparring partner with...