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...improvised performances ever made by a pickup band of colored and white musicians. Bunny Berrigan, Teddy Wilson, Chu Berry, and Johnny Mince, late of Tommy Dorsey, combine their talents to produce one of the most satisfying jazz records of the past ten years . . . George Frazier '33, the Boston jazz critic who has frequently graced the Crimson Network with his presence, this year has decided to immortalize his alma mater's most notorious characteristic. He and his fiancee are writing the lyrics to "Harvard Indifference Blues," which Count Basie will record for posterity . . . Another interesting new release is a series...
...historian, Critic Rascoe is angrily allergic to legend. He worries old news paper accounts like a terrier, impatiently separates fact from fiction, sometimes makes the reader, impatient while doing it. He denies the legend that when one of her unlovely lovers called "Blue Duck" (see cut, p. 87} was fleeced by gamblers of $2,000, Belle stuck up the joint, took $7,000, told the flabbergasted sharpers they could get the change later...
...Thomson opera, Four Saints in Three Acts; Spanish music (with the bagpipers); voodoo dancers and Brazilian Soprano Elsie Houston; a "Jubilee" of gospel-singing Negro quartets (some with three or five members) and the guitar-playing bishop. The bishop, the Rev. Utah Smith, wears paper wings, lately inspired Composer-Critic Thomson to write: "As a stimulator of choric transports he incites the faithful to movements and behavior not very different from those of any true jitterbug. Myself, I found it distinctly pleasant to hear good swing work and to observe its effects in surroundings imbued with Protestant Christianity rather than...
...gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...
...ballots and three hours of electioneering produced no decision, but the Saroyan bloc grew stronger. Then the Circle decided that a simple majority should win. On the seventh ballot Watch on the Rhine triumphed with twelve votes, Saroyan got six, Critic Burns Mantle (New York Daily News') held out with one ballot for Paul Green & Richard Wright's Negro tragedy, Native Son. The Circle had no trouble producing 16 votes (three not voting) for Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green as the season's best foreign play...