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This is the year that Crimson hockey followers have been awaiting with bated breath. Too long has the sextet been rumbling along in its customary cellar slot in the Pentagonal League, and Coach John Chase, in his first full year as puck mentor, has his eye on bigger game...
Most thoroughly armed with witticisms were a sextet of "WAVES," introduced in the elaborate scene on the 11:50 back to Wellesley, perhaps the neatest piece of caricature in the two acts. Other scenes did take offs on the staff of "The New Yorker," Wellesley's knitting workroom and conditioning program, Pine Manor, and the date-lacking Junior prom. Sure, they mentioned Harvard...
There's no doubt that jazz is out, as far as Victor and Columbia are concerned. In the past four months Victor has issued one Blackbird record of Barney. Bigard, which is three weeks overdue in the stores. Columbia did a little better with an occasional Basic or Goodman sextet, and much better with a Teddy Wilson album. Only Decca has approximate peace-time output, with two Gams of Jazz albums and about a dozen Bob Crosby records...
Last week the Savoy had high hopes of bringing in Lionel Hampton's sextet, part of his large band, without Lionel himself, who was ill. Evidently his band, which played at the Bermuda Terrace recently, was in danger of breaking up, as well. But the deal is off, and now Sabby Lewis's band will make a triumphant return to Boston. Lewis was at the Savoy in the fall, you may remember, before going into Kelly's Stable, right in the midst of the musical heat of West 52nd Street in New York. This band pays much more attention...
...concert of a sextet of strings assembled by Horace Britt will take place in Sanders Theatre on Sunday evening, April 5 at 8.15 o'clock. The recital is open to the public and will include three compositions from the pens of Bridge, D'Indy, and Brahms...