Word: carter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boogie-woogie tempo is better, but shows that Teddy Wilson can't play this style . . . To find why many musicians like Red Norvo's band, listen to "I Get Along Without You Very. Well" (Vocation) . . . Teddy Wilson's "More Than You Know" (Brunswick) with Billie Holiday vocal and Benny Carter alto sax has that proper feeling that goes into a real swing record . . . Made three days before she started to sing regularly with the band, Helen O'Connell's first record with Jimmy Dorsey (Decca) "Romance Runs In The Family," is an excellent job, though not nearly up to what...
...James Franklin Jarman was making $35,000 a year in Nashville's J. W. Carter Shoe Co., which belonged to his cousins. According to legend, 52-year-old Shoeman Jarman, a Baptist deacon, felt unchristian making so much money and also found the Carters, though good folk, not devout enough. One day he went alone to Franklin, a tiny town 18 miles south of Nashville, rented a hotel room. All day long, Bible in hand, he communed with the Almighty. When he emerged he was convinced that it was God's will that he form his own shoe...
Senatorial courtesy is the custom by which Presidential appointees "personally offensive or obnoxious" to Senators from their State are not confirmed by the Senate. Last week Virginia's tart old Carter Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred...
FATAL DESCENT-John Rhode & Carter Dickson-Dodd, Mead ($2). A meticulous Scotland Yard inspector and a theorizing police surgeon solve the shooting of a London publisher in his private elevator. Humorous, with an ingenious solution of the hermetically-sealed-room problem...
...whose fun is spoilt when she learns that her lover is married, has a noteworthy history. It was first produced in Paris in 1890, as a vehicle for Gabrielle Réjane. Eight years later, David Belasco used it to further the fabulous career of red-headed Mrs. Leslie Carter. In 1920, Zaza became an opera for Geraldine Farrar. In 1923, Gloria Swanson was Zaza in a silent picture. A favorite item in the repertory of stock-company leading ladies the world over, Zaza has been running off & on ever since Playwrights Pierre Berton and Charles Simon wrote...