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...White's, London's oldest, most exclusive club. Legend has it that while he was being dragged inside, other club members wagered on whether he was dead or just unconscious. This so shocked a parson that he cried out: "I protest! I believe that if the last trumpet were sounded, [Britons] would bet on whether it was a puppet show or the last Day of Judgment...
...doors and make more of an impression than anything you could possibly possess." But the Rev. Dr. should not take himself too seriously: he would do well to pass up Toynbee's Study of History and devote his "selective" reading to denominational periodicals-the Biblical Bugle, the Biblical Trumpet., the Biblical Clarinet...
...Most Intimate (Charlie Shavers, trumpet, and strings; Bethlehem). A skillful jazzman, whose muted flights were jewels of chamber jazz in the late '305, now playing wide-open. Backed by Sy Oliver's strings, Shavers' brazen tones soar, tumble and melt as they extract the moods of tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Green...
...score of Seventh Heaven was concocted--written would hardly be the correct word--by Victor Young, whose previous efforts were restricted mostly to background music for motion pictures. His tunes abound with sound effects, including a multitude of blaring trumpet calls and drum rolls, but they make only a momentary impression. Young apparently aimed his songs at the jukebox trade, hoping to have them hammered irretrievably into the memories of the public. After hearing them only once, however, I found that I neither could nor wanted to remember any of them...
...harp seraphic tuned to the emotional level of Mother Machree; E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, who coo as ponderously as a pair of 200-lb. doves. In "If I'm Elected . . ." ($4.98), Heritage caught a tumult of political echoes in what appears to have been an ear trumpet. Teddy Roosevelt is here with his high-keyed whinny, and William Jennings Bryan with the sound of a tired old tuba as he bup-bups his famous last words of the "Cross of Gold" speech...