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Fletcher Henderson, jazz-band leader, will take time off from his current engagement at Boston's Tic-Toc to appear over. Harvard's Crimson Network this evening at 8 o'clock. Henderson, with a newly-recruited, colored and white band, has been touring the country, and recently caused a furore in the South because of the band's racial equality...
...Rooney Wit. She even likes the Rooney ribbing and the Rooney wit. Well out of sight of the director, Mickey still mugs like a tic-ravaged chimpanzee in hopes that Cinemactress Garland will louse up the take with a laugh. An example of the Rooney wit occurred during the shooting of Babes in Arms. While Judy was catching a nap in her dressing room, Mickey planted a smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!", and dashed a glass of water in her face as she sprinted out. Sometimes Miss Garland retaliates. When, making Girl Crazy, she appeared in white calfskins...
...Angel. In his middle 40s, João Alberto is tallish, slender. A nervous tic periodically distorts his face. His kindly, scholarly bearing does not match his violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
...your are ready for bed. Fall asleep. Dream of a Saturday Quiz. Take up your pencil. That's right. Now with deft, steady strokes, play tic, tac, toe on all the odd questions and tiddley winks on all the even ones. Who knows, you might even get the right answer, and besides, won't Dr. Tatum be surprised...
Louis Armstrong is at the Tic Toc, opposite the Met, until-Saturday, but we'd advise listening to his nightly programs on WHDH first. Lionel Hampton opens Sunday, but again the radio is definitely handier and cheaper...