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...Omaha, for San Francisco four days away. . . . Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ("Safe-Reliable-Elegant") advertised that "its road bed is simply perfect and its track is laid with steel rails"; its Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars "lighted by Pintsch Gas." . . . Southern Pacific, in 1899, assured magazine readers that "a Personal Conductor and Porter go through with...
...advertisements, however, follow the new trend. New York Central enticingly depicts a Repeal club-car scene ("There's more to the 20th Century than 17-hour speed"). Sauciest 1935 copy was published by up-&-coming Chesapeake & Ohio: a honeymoon couple in a lower berth, captioned "Here you are, Conductor-the certificate and two tickets on The George Washington...
...showman last week they were roundly disappointed when quiet Ray Noble conducted his men. His easy gestures were all from the wrist. Occasionally he tapped his foot, sometimes sat at a piano, pattered a bit. He had gathered first-rate U. S. players and, unlike many a conductor, he freely admits his debt to them. Trombonist Glen Miller is one of the best "hot men" in the U. S. And so is Bud Freeman, Noble's tenor saxophone. Only two of the musicians came from London with Noble: Bill Harty, his manager and drummer, and Crooner Al Bowlly...
...pioneer, is on the wane. The Lombardo band persists in "flabbing" but the public likes it. Two years ago dancing collegians turned to the stomping Casa Lomas. But with success the Casa Lomas are more & more mechanical. The Vallée band plays just as it always has, but Conductor Rudy has proved an unexpected showman, smart enough in radio to find new talent, provide a skillful frame. Most "hot" jazz fans still regard black Duke Ellington as the greatest of jazz orchestra leaders. Benny Goodman is currently the peer of "hot" white musicians, having supplanted the Dorsey Brothers...
...month for festivals throughout the U.S., the month when Bethlehem, Pa. makes its annual bow to Bach, when Conductor Frederick Stock takes his Chicago Symphony to Cornell College, Iowa, and on to Ann Arbor, Mich., where local choristers have long sung like professionals. Cincinnati's biennial festival took five days last week. Soloists were there from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta...