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Kenton is a 6 ft. 4½ in. Californian who at 36 has the same ambition Paul Whiteman had in the '20s: to marry classical music and jazz. In Whiteman's case, what emerged was pseudo-symphonic-a blend of Tin Pan Alley and Tchaikovsky. In Kenton's, it is a driving, nervous (and technically skillful) wedding of swing and Schonberg. Kenton started his outfit in 1941, got ahead fast by getting up early to sign autographs, and looking up disc jockeys whenever he hit a new town. For the past two years, his musicians have been...
Died. Douglas H. Cooke, 61, onetime publisher of Leslie's Weekly, Judge, and the old Life magazine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In the '20s, he printed the chipper early works of Robert Benchley and John Held Jr., turned conservative when the magazines and the era folded, became a publisher of hospital magazines...
Five hundred new cinemansions containing half a million new seats were built in 1947-the biggest year of theater construction since the booming '20s. This fact, announced by the trade magazine Boxoffice, seemed cause more for alarm than pride. For in the last three months more & more seats have been empty in U.S. movie houses. Only the showiest spectacles seemed sure to attract the customer's eye; three of Variety's top-grossing six were in Technicolor...
...Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost leading men. Gilbert had the edge on heavy-breathing love scenes and Colman on elegance and versatility. Colman was equally proficient in beglamored melodrama (Beau Geste, which he still considers his best picture) and in drawing...
Catering to the public love of murder was one of the things which made Hearstling Damon Runyon's name a byword of the '20s and '30s. Trials and Other Tribulations reprints his grandstand reports of three notorious murder trials (Hall-Mills, Snyder-Gray, Arnold Rothstein), plus the spicy matrimonial case of "Daddy" and "Peaches" Browning, the suit for income tax that sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, and the Senate investigation of the House of Morgan (complete with midget). Last but not least, the reader will have ample opportunity to put Runyon himself on trial and observe...