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...Book takes a dim view of careless methods of getting acquainted. "Don't date a friend of a friend of Bill Morton's; that's pretty hazy. As for the man who sits next to you in Psychology, well, you have eyes, haven't you? Pick-ups at the corner drug store and unchaperoned visits to a man's appartment are Out." It may be added here that most men don't ask Radcliffe girls to their apartments, that there are never any good-looking men in Psychology, and that most 'Cliffedwellers go to the corner drugstore for sandwiches...
Jimmy Archey is still the best in town, and he is still at Jimmy Ryans, the last of the 52nd Street dives. Pops Foster, who was the first bass-player to go all-pizzicato, and drummer Tommy Benford, who hit the main circuit with Jelly Roll Morton, assist the star trombonist. Sunday...
Cardinals & Crackups. The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction, was a fat, slick novel about a young priest's spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Commonplace, often dull, Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal nevertheless found nearly 600,000 customers, of whom about three-fourths chose the paper-covered edition...
...Cardinal, by Henry Morton Robinson...
...items as the Negro sermon (with accompanying chanting) Dry Bones; the wordless wonders of Dark Was the Night, intoned by "spiritual" singer Blind Willie Johnson; Black Snake Moan, moaned by Blind Lemon Jefferson (Lead Belly's teacher); performances by such favorites as Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Yancey and Louis Armstrong...