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...burlesque-show rehearsals: rusty-voiced Joey Faye and Keenan Wynn (son of Ed) ribbing an old gag routine; Billy Koud as a gaunt, lugubrious director illustrating for the chorines how he wants them to dance; legsome Jean Carter doing an all-out strip tease with an openmouthed rookie drummer way off-beat for her "bumps...
...good drummer knows not only the code messages, but code names for some 200 people. Sometimes in the early morning, when sound travels best, he will make a roll call of all important people in the district. Dr. Good passes on some good advice for drummers: "Don't lean over the drum or its sound will be muffled. Look in the direction you wish the sound to go. A good drummer must not eat chicken wings, give them to someone else...
...time when he played for the Jubilee two years ago. Now he's on the way up again. Never attaining the big success his "Beat Me Daddy" record seemed to augur for him, he lost many of his outstanding men and finally parted company with his partner, the drummer Ray McKinley, who now has his own band. I, heard the revamped Bradley group on the air a few nights, ago, and found it a nice, pleasant orchestra, not greatly different from a bevy of other orchestras. They didn't play much jazz that night, but their numbers were delivered smoothly...
Newsman Weller stood near by when Drummer Carrington spotted a hippopotamus' nose above the muddy Congo waters, banged out the suggestion that surrounding tribesmen kill the beast. They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws." When storm clouds rose, Carrington socked out: "Bad man, son of disease, is coming down upon clods of earth." Tribesmen began closing the doors of the wicker huts...
Newsman Weller guessed that Drummer Carrington's enthusiasm might preserve drum talking for at least a few more years in the Stanleyville neighborhood. But even in Africa change is inevitable. Today, when Quarrelsome Smith wishes to refer with his drums to a white man, he politely beats: "White man spirit from the forest." In his youth he would have walloped: "Death on the river...