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Coffee-colored, dead-pan John Kirby, once a trombonist and tuba player, now slaps and bows the bull fiddle. He, too, swings the classics, in his own delicate, sophisticated arrangements and those of his black, impish trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Kirby's clarinetist is an oldtimer: goggle-eyed Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer...
...Brower is a piccolo-sized (140 lb.), tuba-voiced salesman who once dealt in dry goods in Omaha, now is an insurance broker in Shenandoah, Iowa. Three weeks ago Brower heard of a law* which requires the Government to advance premiums for two years (in the form of interest-bearing certificates) on life insurance up to $5,000 carried by National Guardsmen, volunteers and conscripts taken into the Army...
Malignant tubas, though, for fun, May coil about and strangle one. So with this constantly in mind, It trains you tuba very kind...
Chief cook and bottle-washer is Eli Oberstein. He is vice president, general manager of his own company, raises its capital, signs its artists, tells them how and what to play. Himself a former pianist, trumpet, trombone and tuba player, he chooses his performers with a canny ear, is well able to and does give them pointers on how to toot their own horns. He spends all his evenings In night clubs, cabarets, bars, movies, musical shows, on the lookout for new bands and new tunes. His admiring associates think he can pick a hit more unerringly than any other...
...year Keller graduated (1901) Walter Chrysler lost his tuba, and the month Keller left the Mount Joy High School Chrysler married sweet-faced Della Forker in the Methodist church at their home town, Ellis, Kans. From then on, life was all business for Walter Chrysler. He left the railroad business as a shop foreman for Chicago Great Western, became works manager for American Locomotive Co., got his first job in the automobile business in 1911 (age 36) as works manager for Buick...