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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conductors who put 65 New York Philharmonikers through a waltzy whirl were Ralph Benatzky (White Horse Inn), Robert Stolz (Two Hearts, Spring Parade in the movies) and a courtesy-Viennese, Jaromir Weinberger, famed Czech polka-&-fugue man (Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer, Variations and Fugue on Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree...
...vernal equinox, whether it wants to or not, spring comes to the District of Columbia. On that day, each year, shivering photographers, muffled to the cheekbones, escort a beauteous damsel to the Tidal Basin and tell her to go climb a tree. Usually the Cherry Blossom Queen, posing as regally as possible while sitting on a knobby tree branch, gets runs in her stockings, barked knuckles and a ruffled temper...
...Strong. Her first duty: to brave the blasts of spring. Miss Strong, with no illusions about her job, showed up in a fur coat, carrying an extra coat-a pink sports number-for the pictures. Problem, as usual, was to find one of the famed cherry trees that was at least budding. The photographers and the Queen shinnied vainly up & down many a cold tree, peering for buds. At last they found one, and the 1941 Queen made history for the photographers by uttering the first pleasant remark they could remember in the circumstances. "Hi, bud," said Nancy brightly, "where...
...locusts John the Baptist ate are not bugs, but the flat seed pods of the carob tree-which are also the husks fed to the swine and the Prodigal Son. They can now be bought in the markets of Manhattan's lower East Side as "St. John's bread...
...entitled "Gems of Jazz." It consists of a number of records made in this country several years ago for release in England. Consequently, most of them will be quite welcome to collectors now. Included in the album are two of Mildred Bailey's best couplings: Honeysuckle Rose and Willow Tree, Squeeze Me and Downhearted Blues. These four sides feature Bunny Berigan, Johnny Hodges, and Teddy Wilson...