Word: slappers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been fully celebrated in song & story, swing music has been neglected in the graphic arts. But circulating among swing fans in Chicago last week were a number of scrupulous lithographs on the life of swing. They were the work of one George von Physter, an oldtime doghouse slapper (string bass player) who went to Hollywood as a designer, returned to the smalltime bands with an itch to make drawings of them. The results were so deep-scarred with authenticity that swing musicians in Chicago last week had them tacked over their beds. Included: a jam session in a cheap hotel...
...bands, including 32 pieces, will stage a "Battle of Music" playing from alternate ends of the hall. Pete Herman, the famous "Dog House Slapper," who has played with Mal Hallett and Casa Loma, will be on hand to carry on with his baby bass-viol; Lew Conrad will be crooning the latest hits from the Scandals, the Follies, and all the bigtown shows; Marshard's great aerialminded planist will be doing tailspins all over the key boards...
Struck Sirs: I am sorry not to have anything serious to write about your fine magazine, but I read in TIME, June 12, under Miscellany and "Slapper" what struck me as a funny story. I translated it to my parents and a few relatives. They did not find it funny. Finally my uncle said that he knew of a similar story so I listened carefully: "Ahmet Agha was slapped by a friend and instead of retaliating he appealed to the village judge. After a weighty consideration the judge ordered the guilty party to pay a fine (considerably less than...
...youth, says Dreiser) ends with his discharge for "borrowing" money from his boss's funds. There is still a long way to go before this gangling 19-year-old becomes the ponderous, dewlapped author of An American Tragedy, the principal pachyderm of U. S. letters, unrebuked slapper of a Nobel Prizeman (TIME, March 30). Dreiserians will hail Dawn for its candor, its shouldering, uncompromising lengthiness; antis will raise their eyebrows for the same reasons...
...with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly respectable, join the shifting parade: Gunman Sicily Tony, actual husband of Jim Towner's mistress and still a rival for her affections; Pat Healy, doorman of old Hector's apartment house; "Lucky Sam" Lipschitz, Dave the Slapper, gangsters...