Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stan's band played a swing concert last year at Sanders Theater. Between ourselves, it wasn't too good. In fact, it was even less. But shortly thereafter, the outfit was completely reorganized and enlarged. So vast was the change that when Benny Goodman auditioned the band "sat-in" and played with them for fifteen minutes, breaking the clarinet player's reed in the process. And shortly thereafter, Fitch Band Wagon evinced considerable interest in having them on their program sometime during the year...
...HISTORY OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN THEATER-Margarele Bieber-Princeton University Press...
...music while calling it swing, so do the jitterbugs dance out of time, pressing the beat so much that they can't same time and watch the crowd shag to easy tempos. They just rock along, everybody taking his time, but it still swings. When Krupa was playing his theater tour last summer, he had two kids with him who really did a marvelous job: they danced to fast tunes, but with all the case and grace of a couple of cats. That's what makes Bill Robinson's dancing what it is: marvelous technique--so much that...
...outfit in a few weeks" . . . Ha! Kemp's record of "Blue Moonlight" (Victor), a concert jazz extract like "Deep Purple," is one of the best the band has done in a long while . . . Contrary to general reports, Jack Harlow's ('41) imitation of Bix Beiderbecke at the Sanders Theater Tuesday evening was very well done. Considering the handicaps under which the band was working, the evening was a success . . . Harry James starts half way through "One O'Clock Jump," and ends up playing "Two O'Clock Jump" (Brunswick). The brass section plays too softly. Just a bit louder...
...Manhattan, on Washington's birthday, newshawks discovered Elizabeth Washington, onetime vaudeville actress and direct descendant of his brother John Augustine, cheerfully playing a fiddle in Manhattan's WPA Federal Theater. Said she: "There must be thousands of Washington descendants. The family was enormous.* . . . Just say I swing a mean crinoline...