Word: savoyism
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...milestone in jazz history may well occur in Boston on Monday, March 12, when five of the greatest living Now Orleans jazzmen gather together at the Savoy Cafe. The world famous soprano saxophone star, Sidney Bechet, will open a four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town...
...idea was first suggested by popular, doughty General Arnaldo Azzi. He urged that the Royal Italian Army should be reformed, drop its oath of allegiance to the House of Savoy, change its name to Esercito Nazionale (National Army). For his pains the General was retired...
Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
Among them : Capitol, Hit, Asch, Beacon, Blue Note, Comet, Commodore, De Luxe, Dix, Apollo, Savoy, Harmonia, Keynote, Exclusive, Feature, Musicraft...
President Wallace Phillips took a pleased look about the Savoy's plushy dining room. This was the most successful luncheon the London branch of the American Chamber of Commerce had staged this year-400 British and U.S. admirals, generals, politicians and businessmen present, another 150 turned away. During the main course of veal roast, potatoes and asparagus he leaned over, made a suggestion to the luncheon speaker, British Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Since there were so many Americans present, Mr. Phillips whispered, it might be a good thing if the speaker said a few words about...