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...Manhattan, Negro Clarence Baker attempted to carry his bass drum through a subway turnstile, was wedged fast 45 minutes before a maintenance crew could release...
Ironside used the total immersion system- used to put on hip boots and dunk converts and some who didn't want to come in just then but who slid to Jesus on his bass notes. He used to circulate queasy looking gents through the oddie who'd tap you when you were just going good, say, on "Blood of the Lamb," and ask you to put in with The Faith. One of those guys gave me the rap once and I was about to hop over when my brother hissed a "Beat it," out of the side...
Died. John Ringling, 70, last of the seven Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra is on tour this week, but some of its members, led by its distinguished harpist, Bernard Zighera, are to give a most interesting chamber music concert in Jordan Hall on Tuesday evening. The program opens with a Sinfonie for Grand Orchestra (two violins, viola, bass, two oboes, two horns, two trumpets and tympani) written by the late eighteenth century Rhenish composer, Henri Joseph Riegel. Following this, there is to be a work by Daniel-Lesur, a member of the modern "La Jeune France" group, which is entitled "Five Interludes for Four Horns." The remainder of the program...
Johnny Johnson-the Group Theatre's excellent musical indictment of a "bass ackwards" world...