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...reunion of McKenzie-Condon's Chicagoans-the band organized by Guitarist Eddie Condon and Kazooist Red McKenzie in the 1920s. Among those present: Condon, Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Bass Player Bob Haggart, Drummer Gene Krupa, Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Their enthusiasm has withered little with the years. The album is a remarkable recreation of a style 40 years dead-a style that is reborn in Sullivan's honky-tonk piano and Russell's keening clarinet and, most delightfully, in Teagarden's lumpy but moving vocals in Logan Square...
...Chandrapore, Forster's provincial Indian town of the 1920s, the British raj condescendingly called social events attended by both races ''bridge parties." The play opens with such a party. Fielding (Portman), the government college principal and a man too decent to play raj, has invited a mixed bag to tea. Among his guests are a pair of British ladies-who want to see India. One of them, lanky, pink, ditherish Miss Quested (Anne Meacham), who has come from England to be married; and Mrs. Moore (Gladys Cooper), the mother of Miss Quested's fiancé. They...
...geese were more than half in love with Communism. It is all over now, but the Fund for the Republic believes that as a matter of history and simple wisdom, it is important that the U.S. should be aware of just how, and to what extent, Communism in the 1920s and '305 managed to infiltrate U.S. society from labor unions to universities. Nine volumes have already appeared, covering Communist activities in churches, mass media and government. Six years ago, the fund commissioned Daniel Aaron, a professor of English at Smith College, to write a history of the time when...
...become the patron of twelve ecclesiastical livings for parish priests in rural England, or Leopold Harris, who was so great an expert on fraud that his prison cell became an office where he scrutinized documents for the British authorities. Or there is the Portuguese Bank Note Case of the 1920s, in which a band of smooth, velvety swindlers talked the Bank of Portugal's official printers-a posh British firm-into engraving 100 million escudos, next got permission from the Portuguese government to found a bank in Angola, where they put their escudos into circulation...
Died. Konrad Bercovici, 79, jack of all literary trades and 1920s bestseller, a gentle giant with a Stalinesque mustache who successively won fame as a foreign correspondent, novelist (Savage Prodigal) and film writer (The Volga Boatman) but put the best of his talent into Ghitza and The Story of the Gypsies, sentimental chronicles of the gypsy life he had first observed during an impressionable boyhood in Rumania; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...