Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes between the notes: Most of the music stores in town (Briggs included) have finally gotten sheet copies of the Bob Zurke and Jesse Stacy piano solos. While they're not too easy to read, they're worth the try . . . To see just how much influence Louis Armstrong did exert on jazz, catch the opening bars in Erskine Hawkins' "Swing Out," his theme song . . . Art Tatum's piano on "Tea For Two" (Decca) while not real swing, is interesting enough technically to make listening...
Unlike many thousands of U. S. citizens who visited New York City last week, they gave only a fleeting glance to its World's Fair. They heard Pearl Buck lecture on China at Town Hall, Columbia's Professor Clyde R. Miller lecture on propaganda at Lincoln School. To relax, they sailed in a yacht, saw Pins and Needles and a show at Radio City Music Hall, where they went backstage to pose for pictures with the Rockettes...
Tests of their thinking power were yet to come. Their first thoughts on the Big Town were varied. Sighed Molly Milano at week's end: "It's just a movie come true." Said William Propst, 19: "After all, I like the quiet of my home town...
...white-haired Eastman founded a $17,000,000 school of music in Rochester. This huge establishment was somewhat grandiose for a town of Rochester's size, but the Eastman School of Music flourished, and is today counted one of the most important music conservatories...
...Union Pacific off to a rolling start last week in Omaha, where the Union Pacific got off to a slow start 74 years ago, Omaha's town fathers agreed to commemorate both events with a Golden Spike celebration. Some 20,000 Omahans joined "whiskers clubs" to act as unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday...