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...Concert Intime" in Washington, D. C. last week the solo performer was a dark-haired, comely young woman who appeared in a low-cut Nile-green gown, bowed graciously to her audience, raised a gold trumpet to her lips, closed her eyes and proceeded to tootle. Her arm muscles twitched while she played. The ruffles on her bosom and the orchids on her shoulder fluttered fitfully with each inspiration. But otherwise there were no signs of exertion...
LIBERALISM FIGHTS ON - Ogden L. Mills - Macmillan ($1.50). A trumpet-blast for the G. O. P. by that famed liberal, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury...
...stage Phil Spitainy leads an orchestra of "glorious girls," whose number seems to hover between forty-eight and sixty, according to various advertisements. Be they all glorious or not, and whatever their number, they can make a powerful lot of noise, particularly in the trumpet section. However, some of the arrangements are excellent, as is the harmonizing vocalization. This department would like to recommend to your careful consideration a soloist with a flower in her hair and a nice set of pipes (not the music-goes-round-and-round vocalist, who, incidentally, is not bad at her stunt...
...Broadway-bred composer. With music frequently inspired, Mr. Gershwin manages to give new life and importance to the Negroes of Catfish Row. Conductor Alexander Smallens raises his baton and an overture sounds out like a brisk command for attention. It is Saturday night in Charleston. A shrill trumpet sets the pitch. A peppery xylophone suggests the dice, rolling to trouble...
...teach me to play the trumpet and give me his old associate, Miff Mole, as trombonist, I'll be very pleased to swap jobs, income and worries about taxes and expenses with him. And in addition I'll throw in a fine assortment of rejected manuscripts...