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...talking about Bandleader Clyde McCoy, who for years has been regarded by the cool set as perhaps the moldiest fig (jazz lingo for oldfashioned) ever to lift a trumpet. But moldy or not, Trumpeter McCoy has a sizable following, passionately devoted to the chirpy, foot-jiggling style the fans think they remember from the misty corridors of their youth. Last week, after a five-year layoff, "Clyde McCoy and His Waa Waa Dixieland Band" were winding up a successful stand at Manhattan's Roundtable before taking off on a Midwest tour, during which they expect to cash...
...your new atlas." Last week suburban housewives around New York City were amused by an imaginative spoof of the coupon-clipping craze spread over full-page ads in 21 suburban dailies and 17 weekly newspapers. Author of the spoof: the unspoofy New York Times, which employed big type to trumpet such messages as WOMEN OF DARIEN, LOOK! Purpose of the ads: to build up suburban circulation by playing lightly on the frustrations of the suburban housewife...
...Town Hall concert featured Alessandro Scarlatti's rarely performed oratorio, II Martirio di Sant' Orsola. An unpretentious work, it had little true dramatic tension but was supported by a vocal latticework of wonderful warmth, tenderness and transparency. Elsewhere on the program. Conductor Jenkins exhumed a wonderfully flourishing Trumpet Suite by 17th century English Composer Jeremiah Clarke, and played Mexican Composer Carlos Chavez' Symphony No. 5, a propulsively rhythmic work for strings that ran hard and relentlessly but with no more effect than a man on a musical treadmill...
...Uncertain Trumpet, Taylor...
...Davis feels that President Harding is the worst advertiser in the country and therefore nobody knows of his great work. He proposes that an office of Administration Publicity be set up to broadcast with trumpet blares what the President is so reticent in telling. There will be a hierarchy of advertising agents, speakers and political salemen, in fact all the machinery of commercial selling, including "pep talks." The party in power will peddle its wares to the nation while the nation pays the over-head. (From the CRIMSON, April...