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Space in TIME occasionally given over to Jazz is all right, but not always well informed. For instance in the current issue there is quite a piece about a piano player named Raymond Scott, who has recorded, among others. Powerhouse, Toy Trumpet, Reckless Night Aboard an Ocean Liner. Also about another musician who will make Merry Widow on a Spree, Dizzy Debutante, Lullaby to a Lamp Post, Ode to an Old Coat Sleeve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Birthday. Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 8; in Hollywood. Celebration: a party for child patients in a Los Angeles hospital. Gifts: from her parents, a toy cooking outfit; from the public, thousands of dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...crowded square . . . twilight is setting in ... Arab barters with Arab . . . prayer time is approaching . . . camels are resting ... a group of dancing girls are entertaining ... an Englishman gets lost . . . traffic is heavy . . . the afternoon heat is still felt. . . ." Recorded but not yet released are equally odd Scott numbers called Powerhouse, Toy Trumpet, Reckless Night Aboard an Ocean Liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Freak Draw | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...persuaded him to sign a contract for three pictures by promising to select and direct them all. Having completed the first, afraid of losing his appeal for U. S. audiences by becoming too thoroughly Americanized, Actor Gravet recently returned to Paris, where he maintains an army of 30,000 toy soldiers of which a few members always travel with their owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...than usual, introduces six lindy hoppers, who add considerable zest to the program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit piano, and a siap bass...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/23/1937 | See Source »

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