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...Hawaiian Islands, "sampan" does not mean what Noah Webster says it does. In Hawaii, it means a boat owned by an Oriental. Residents of Honolulu, now queasy over the Japanese crisis in the far Pacific, regard the islands' chief sampan nest at the fisherman's wharf, a few miles from the Navy's base at Pearl Harbor, as nothing more than a nest of Japanese spies. Army and Navy men think so too. Many a destroyer commander on patrol before Pearl Harbor has stopped a fancy, high-powered motorboat inside the restricted zone, has had bland apologies...
...first consists of four twelve-inch sides issued by the Hot Record Society, and which I was unable to review when they were released six weeks ago. The band playing is called Jack Teagarden's Big Eight, and includes Teagarden, Rex Stewart (trumpet), Ben Webster (tenor sax), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Billy Kyle (piano), Billy Taylor (bass), and Dave Tough (drums). The tunes are: St. James' Infirmary, Shine, The World Is Waiting for The Sunrise, and Big Eight Blues...
...said that this group has made the finest recorded jazz I've ever heard, there isn't an awful lot that I can add. However, I would like to mention a fact which impresses me as making the date doubly important, and that is the opportunity given to Ben Webster and Billy Kyle, and of which opportunity they made the very best. Needless to say, Teagarden, Stewart, and Dave Tough are their magnificent selves, as you would expect, and as you've heard on pretty nearly everything they've done. However, a musician like Ben Webster, although his work ranks...
...take part in the early games because of scholastic troubles was taken mildly, but now it has become apparent that the lanky captain will be ineligible for the Christmas trip through the West, and also will be of little use throughout the remainder of the year. Then Bill Webster, regular guard last year, was thrown off the squad for playing JV football, and just to make it unanimous, Hugh Bennett, brother of the famous Jim and star of last year's Freshman team, developed an eye ailment that will keep him on the sidelines through the entire season...
About Twelfth Night: Margaret Webster, Maurice Evans, and company, who produced it in New York, missed up on a wonderful opportunity to present Elizabethan music in its original setting. Some of the loveliest madrigals of the age were written to the lyrics in Twelfth Night, Come Away, Sweet Death particularly, and the entire play simply cries out for an Elizabethan vocal and instrumental score. Paul Bowles' music is excellent, but no substitute for the real thing...