Word: savoyism
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...London's Savoy Hotel last week, the staid Abraham Lincoln Room seethed with such important people as cabinet ministers, the Lord Mayor and U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas. They had all come to do homage to a national figure. Cried a scarlet-liveried herald, announcing the guest of honor: "Pray silence for Mr. Danny Kaye...
...Multitudes. Finally, surrounded by his close friends at lunch at the Savoy, Conductor Beecham got into a vivace finale. After the toastmaster had read telegrams from Jan Sibelius and Richard Strauss, he roared, "Where's the one from Mozart?" When one speaker said Sibelius had once remarked that Beecham was the "greatest living conductor," Sir Thomas chirped "Hear! Hear...
Clarinetist Ed Hall, who is currently at the Savoy, and several follow musicians headline a series of eight entertainment acts. Pat Rainey, former vocalist at the Campus Room and now at the Hotel Fensgate; Marie McDonald, not "The Body" but a New England Tributary Theater singer, and Eric Victor, from the cast of the musical revue "Inside U. S. A." are the other professional performers who will be on hand...
Some ten minutes after this correspondent had settled himself at the Savoy the other night to listen to Bob Wilber and Edmond Hall perform on their clarinets, the young lady accompanying him asked, "What's that thing that other little man's playing...
...very pleasant jazz, this Dixieland heard at the Savoy--a jazz almost lost now, for the cash comes to other forms of music. But it's nice to see a beardless youth like Wilber playing it straight, playing it so close to Cambridge, and playing it so well. Wilber on the low notes, Hall on the high ones, and Archey's trombone make the Savoy's offering as good as anything going. Charles W. Halley...