Word: whitemans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore, Artur Bodanzky, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Paul Whiteman, Deems Taylor, Albert Spalding...
...every possible occasion last week bands played his music-Memphis Blues, Beale Street Blues, St. Louis Blues. Whenever he sauntered down the street there was a clamor for his autograph, a crowd of pickaninnies with hands out for pennies. Paul Whiteman brought Handy to the stage of Municipal Auditorium when he played there for the big Floral Ball. Beale Street made him the leader of its grand parade. He stood in the first automobile, doffing his hat to left & right. At small Handy Park, named in his honor, he mounted a reviewing stand, settled down in an old-fashioned rocking...
...coda apparently suggested by Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that the melody and lyrics had a profoundly depressing effect...
...entertainment would be "something more acceptable." At 10:12 p.m., expectant bankers & guests saw the gold plush curtains of the ballroom stage draw slowly apart, reveal a piano against which leaned Miss Helen Jepson. A pretty, blonde soprano who reached radio fame with Rudy Vallee and Paul Whiteman, Miss Jepson is beginning her second year with the Metropolitan Opera Company (TIME, Nov. 25). She sang Ah, forse e lui from La Traviata, an English folk song, a Viennese waltz song. Bankers whistled, shouted, cheered, stamped. "It was a departure," explained Mr. Callaway later, "but without a speaker of commanding personality...
...Dvorak, Patsy Kelley, and Fred Allen all contribute their bits with considerable success and both Paul Whiteman and Rubinoff do bits in the gubernatorial contest about which the story is centered. Powell is drafted by the party bosses to take the place of their drunken candidate who is played in the true manner of the nickleodeon by Raymond Walburn. Powell sings his way into the hearts of the voters and then gains their confidence by exposing his own backers as a bunch of crooks. It seemed to make no difference to him that he had promised to keep the arrangement...