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Dickerson, up from New York's Downtown Cafe Society, blew some magnificent, dirty trombone and was the hit of the affair with his horn and vocal and Black and Blue. Newton and Morgan shared the vocals on a blues that also highlighted the session, and Arthur Karle (ex-Goodman tenor saxophonist) knocked out the crowd with several fine choruses. The musicians form something of a mutual admiration society and it certainly showed in the wonderfully cohesive ensembles they improvised on most numbers...
...young ladies' faces and shoes on young ladies' behinds, here develops his tenderest relationships with middle-aged ladies (the Misses George, Main and Hattie McDaniel), and each of them is worth a dozen average love scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed...
Sponsors of these jazz concerts are a group of Lowell House undergraduates headed by Charles Kallman '47. The next session is planned for September 11 and will feature Wild Bill Davison, Chicago cornetist, and Georgie Auld, well known tenor saxophonist...
...Merry Widow's box-office appeal, the New Opera Company departed from its past policy of using only youthful U.S. unknowns. It hired world-famed Polish Operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura for leading man, gave the part of the Widow to his wife, Marta Eggerth. Redheaded Hungarian Cinemactress Eggerth, an enticing peach sundae in liberally flounced weeds, gave Lehár fans all they could...
Wagner: Bridal Chamber Scene from Lohengrin (Victor Symphony, Edwin McArthur conducting, with Kirsten Flagstad, soprano, and Lauritz Melchior, tenor; Victor; 4 sides). Grade A performance and recording; Flagstad at her finest...