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...soldiers may have been shouted down by this character Gertrude Stein in Paris [TIME, April 16], but I shall not be! Who is she that she can criticize our Army for not being "gay" after they have been torn from their homes and friends, spent years in training and months in mud and dirt of foreign lands liberating a French people who were too decadent a nation to do their own fighting...
...Call to Music. Jules Stein originally set out to be a doctor. As a University of Chicago undergraduate, he organized a band, in which he played the fiddle. When he was offered two engagements, he filled one, hired a second band to fill the other. He saw at once that there was money to be made in musical bookings. The following summer he was collecting agent's fees from bands in four Midwest states. With the proceeds, he set off for the University of Vienna to study ophthalmology...
...Stein, then resident eye physician at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, wrote a learned, respected treatise called The Use of Telescopic Spectacles and Distil Lens en. But Dr. Stein finally gave up medicine and devoted his whole time to booking dance bands...
Competition in those days was sharp-but so was the quiet, conservatively dressed young eye doctor. Dr. Stein's method was to sign exclusive rights with hotels and ballrooms. When band leaders found that they were unable to get jobs elsewhere, they came to work for him. As his roster of M.C.A. bands grew (Coon-Sanders, Isham Jones, Ted Weems, Zez Confrey), he expanded his interests. Nightclub operators discovered that it was efficient to do business with Dr. Stein. When they signed an M.C.A. band, they found that in the same package they could get floor shows, liquor, table...
...since his eager arms now reached out in so many directions. His professional embrace had become well-nigh irresistible. Rudy Vallee finally capitulated to M.C.A. and was signed to a big-time radio spot. Fred Waring and Paul Whiteman are among the few name bands still struggling along without Stein's M.C.A. Band leaders who want to get out have their difficulties, too. When Benny Goodman tried to break his contract, he was offered such humiliating bookings that he would not fill them, finally disbanded his musicians for a year...