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...star of the show, Gertrude Lawrence (6 sides; $2). Between this one and Decca's earlier album by Hildegarde, there was no contest vocally: Hildegarde has the voice. But glamorous "Gertie" Lawrence still has what it takes on the stage, and the Victor set captures that for keeps. Conductor Joy's accompaniment discreetly evokes the footlights...
...Duncan Sisters days (1926). Leonard Joy's most trying recording session was for Eddie Cantor's Now's the Time to Fall in Love, when between the countless jittery "takes" the orchestra rushed to telephones: it was Wall Street's "Black Friday" in September 1929. Conductor Joy has had an arranger (Cornetist Del Staigers) who once, everyone swears, fell asleep on an arranging job, completed it satisfactorily before he woke. There was a trumpeter who had aerophobia (fear of high places); Mr. Joy had to hire the trumpeter's wife to soothe...
...began when comely, iron-whimmed Anne Guerry Perry, wife of husky Lawyer Jim Perry, resolved that Columbia should hear good music, whether or no. She persuaded Conductor Hans Kindler to bring Washington's National Symphony to Columbia, to play with a chorus she had helped get up. She commanded Husband Jim, a onetime footballer who is so tone-deaf that he failed to recognize the march at his own wedding, to find the money. He did his job so well that Columbia's concerts, mostly at $1 top, never lost their backers a penny...
...conductor the Perrys got a young German, Hans Schwieger, onetime maestro in Danzig and Berlin. For players, the Perrys wanted chiefly Southerners, but when they failed to find enough, they settled for Northerners and refugees...
...viola chitchat in a string orchestra: a musical impression of the almost inaudible wit of Musicritic Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker. It was performed by special dispensation, the work of the first ASCAP man to return to the networks with his own tunes. The composer and conductor was lanky, ruddy, silvery-haired Robert Russell Bennett, back on the air in a WOR-Mutual program called Russell Bennett's Notebook (7 p.m. E. S. T.). The program has been allowed to return, mainly because Mr.Bennett plays noncommercial music...