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Sirs: . . . Several clays after you published your story anent Hal Kemp's Brunswick recording of the famous Hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, a letter from the composer was received by his good friend and former Budapest studio-mate, Karoly Nyaray, now of New York City. I met Nyaray, who possesses a fine tenor voice, alter I heard him sing Szomorú Vasárnap on Columbia's Hungarian record of Gloomy Sunday. He showed me the letter and translated it for me. ... I am quoting...
Last week excitable youngsters at the University of Michigan believed their campus was the scene of the first U. S. suicide encouraged by Composer Seress' dolorous dirge. After listening to Hal Kemp's orchestra play Gloomy Sunday over the radio, John Granville Williams, 24, moody graduate student in chemistry, hanged himself...
College girls will splash gracefully alongside the Crimson mermen next Saturday night when Coach Hal Ulen directs, a water carnival in the Indoor Athletic Building for the benefit of the Olympic Fund. Four girls' colleges have been invited to send relay teams, and the best New England swimmers will be drawn from every quarter to offer a varied program...
...played by Hal Kemp and his usually lively band, Brunswick's Gloomy Sunday wallows dismally along in E flat minor, the dirge effect enhanced by a pair of French horns, and ends with a coda apparently suggested by Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that...
...Crimson players are making the trip along with Coach Wes Fesler and Manager Hal Jahn. In addition to the first string five, Fesler is taking George Lowman, Lewis McGowan, Jack Dampeer, Jack Mason, and Jake Kuhn...