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Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" won the Saturday Evening Post short story contest a couple of years ago. Now the whimsical story of Faust in New Hampshire has been made into a movie. "All That Money Can Buy" seems well on its way to winning an equally conspicuous niche in moviedom's hall of fame...
...long before he became the Kingfish) was his Commissioner of Conservation. New Orleans, the last rampart which held out against Huey's domination, gave up a few months later. Big-beaked Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley (known to Huey as old Turkey Head) resigned, and burly Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with flesh) certified Candidate Bob Maestri to the job. Normally, Maestri would have come up for reelection in 1938. But Leche talked the Louisiana Legislature into giving Maestri a six-year term...
...letter about the death of Daniel Webster on Oct. 24 written by a Yale College student, who said: "The autumn of the United States is at hand...
...Five O'clock Drag and Clementine, two original riff numbers arranged in the Ellington tradition of unexpected effects and frequent dissonance's, particularly in the brass section. Clementine is not the "Oh My Darling" ditty, but just another Ellington vehicle by his arranger, Billy Strayhorn. On both sides Ben Webster and Rex Stewart are presented with several grooves of wax, which they use to excellent advantage. On Clementine Rex blows a fine solo, exploiting the valves on his trumpet in the style he set in his Boy Meets Horn exhibition of a few years...
...Webster is the man to watch in Ellington's band from now on. With Chu Berry dead in a motor accident some weeks ago and Coleman Hawkins playing with only infrequent imagination, Ben has little competition among his follow exponents of the tenor saxophone, and Duke is giving him ample leeway. On these two records he plays rich, flowing solos in a smooth, generally conjunct melodic line, supported chiefly by a well recorded rhythm section. There are no limits to Ellington's opportunities for solo improvisation in his band. I notice that the Duke has another record out today...