Word: xylophonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orchestra, he seemed to be having the time of his life. Don Gillis' new Symphony for Fun was the kind of thing the maestro could let himself go on. On the podium, he swayed, sang, all but strutted a cakewalk. Once the Toscanini temper flared up-when the xylophonist floundered over a particularly tricky passage. In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling xylophonist, whispered to a companion: "Poor guy. Doesn't he realize that no one could possibly play that passage? Even I know that...
...fine musical feature from Tokyo is the playing of Yoichi Hiraoka, famed Japanese xylophonist, who used to perform in U.S. concert halls and over a U.S. network. Says Grim : "He still plays classical music superbly, and without any commercials about his boss from Japan...
...Soon she and Oliver may commence a new weekly radio show which will enlist other American showfolk justly beloved of Britons : Frances Day, top-money musicomedy star who graduated from the Texas Guinan night club chorus; Ziegfeld Follies alumna Dorothy Dickson, Actress Claire (Gay Divorce) Luce, Greta Nissen, gargantuan Xylophonist Teddy Brown, and freckle-spattered dramatic Comedienne Constance Cummings...
...advertising agency J. Walter Thompson when it took over the Old Gold account last January, What's New will be tried out for 13 weeks, will be put on a national hookup if it makes the grade. Pleasant to hear last week was the smooth playing of Xylophonist Red Norvo as a Goodman guest. Equally pleasant this week should be the famed Goodman trio, which will get together for the first time in over two years. Besides Goodman, it includes Colored Pianist Teddy Wilson, who has his own band, Drummer Dave Tough, lately with Tommy Dorsey...
Ringleaders were handsome Norman Towner, 18, who likes to write and play tennis, and his sister Shirley, 15, who wants to be a xylophonist. Norman and Shirley scouted around, enlisted in their group Reno's most popular and active youths, among them: Football Guards Bill and Jac Shaw, Socialist Joe Benedict (whose mother arrived in Reno two years ago for a divorce), Bill Eccles, son of Nevada's Republican State chairman, Forrest W. Eccles. Last week they distributed all over the State a Youth's newspaper: Here and Now, "The Interests and Opinions of Nevada...