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Occasionally the listeners complain. After a program on food rationing, one wired: "You are supposed to sell wax [Johnson's]." Another complained: "It's already been rammed down our throats without you yapping . . . about...
...movie's chief advantage over wax-museum showings, such as are to be seen in New York's Museum of Modern Art, is its sound-track perfection. "Sign of the Cross" was remade (God knows why!), not exhumed from the files...
...late Turkish Ambassador, she founded the Crescent Record Co. Zealot Ertegun is passionately certain that New Orleans jazz is a genuine art form, and America's chief contribution to culture. His most obvious reason for founding the company was to get the Kid back on wax. (Ory's 1921 Sunshine recordings-Ory's Creole Trombone, Society Blues-were probably the first Negro-made records of U.S. jazz...
...release. They were made in Los Angeles with the help of an authentic Dixieland ensemble-including Trumpeter Edward ("Mutt") Carey, who weathered the sweet-arrangement era as a Pullman porter. The recordings, a mixture of Congo barrelhouse and Creole sauce, are probably as close as anything ever put on wax to the spirit of old Storyville, New Orleans' once-gaudy bawdyhouse district...
...arms, sometimes tore living flesh by clumsy searching for clay perfection. Augmenting a keen sense of touch with the memories of his earlier, visual studies, he continued almost to the last of his 83 years to fashion his distinctively animated dancers and horses. He worked in semisecrecy, in perishable wax and clay, left the figures scattered helter-skelter in his Paris studio...