Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week was holding the first International Jazz Festival. Jazz fans from all over Western Europe (including G.I.s given special leave from Germany) flocked to it. In Nice's plum-plush opera house, they heard jazz from seven nations, including three brands of U.S. stuff. Ex-Ellington Trumpeter Rex Stewart and his sextet, garish in grey-green homespun and corn-yellow ties, set the joint jumping. But when Louis & his boys† burned a way through Rockin' Chair, St. Louis Blues and That's My Desire (with 200-lb. Velma Middleton rocking the lyrics), the fans really...
...midweek, the U.S. jazzbos - Satchmo, Stewart and Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrow - had won the wildest ovations. By comparison, the polite jazz of the Swiss, the Belgians (who went in for bebop) and the British got only polite applause. But the festival's local wonder was an un known young (24) French clarinetist named Claude Luter. When Claude blew out Canal Street Blues and High Society and one of his own called Abouche, sentimental Drummer Baby Dodds (whose late brother Johnny played clarinet with King Oliver) said tearfully: "That kid is terrific. I'd almost think Johnny was playing...
Despite these handicaps, the team is moving ahead and, according to Stewart Bennett, one of the postwar organizers, has scheduled three more games: "We play Norwich on their mounts on March 20 and have a return match with Yale on the 27th," Bennett said yesterday. A tentative match with Williams is set for next spring on the ponies they borrow from the Pittsfield polo club. "That's the kind of arrangement we'd like to make around this area," he added...
...Wronged Woman, who will pay $5000 for the information that will free her son. Fascinated that such a situation could actually exist, and further stupified that the man was really cleared, Hollywood has gone overboard to make its point. The energetic exploits of a Chicago Times reporter, James Stewart, have been turned into a well-paced story that has everything but an orthodox West Coast ending. Therein lies its weakness...
Calling Northside 777 on a hunch of his editor, James Stewart finds a woman who has worked years scrubbing floors to free her jailed, but honest, son. The human interest aspects of this set-up sweep Stewart off his feet and he splashes the Hard-earned Heartaches across Chicago, little believing the son (Conte) is really innocent. Persuaded to dig deeper and talk with the prisoner, Stewart gradually turns from a skeptical, feature-conscious reporter into a citizen grieved by a civic unjustice and turns lower-case handsprings to right the wrong. After pacing the Polish quarter and fondling...