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Classically trained. Harpsichordist Marlowe learned about jazz from Purist John Henry Hammond Jr., became so good that she played an engagement last spring at Manhattan's Rainbow Room. When "Jelly Roll'' Morton, famed Negro pianist, heard one of her records, he argued: "That couldn't be a white man playing, and it certainly couldn't be a woman.'' Boogie-woogie, with its classic repeated bass figures, its percussive attack, seemed to Miss Marlowe just right for the harpsichord. Radio listeners agreed...
Special University fellowship to Morton A. Brown 2G., of Toledo...
Governed by rigid restrictions laid down for buildings on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the court matches the adjacent Free Library, both being copies of the Marine Ministry in Paris. Architect W. R. Morton Keast, who wangled $1,525,500 of PWA money for the building, was given free hand with the interior. But because of PWA and Philadelphia municipal requirements, Architect Keast had to call for competitive bids for murals. However, he persuaded PWA to let the bidders tell the jury about their qualifications. Philadelphia's municipal Art Jury (once headed by Collector Joe Widener) passed upon 22 bidding artists...
...tunes, with his mostly brass octet. Paul Laval, an Italo-Frenchman (born Joseph Usifer), plays clarinet and saxophone-his occasional saxophone work with the NBC Symphony has earned Toscanini's bravos-and leads the ten wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included Pianists "Jelly Roll" Morton, Alec Templeton and Joe Sullivan, Blues Composer W. C. Handy, Violinist Kurt Polnarioff of the Pittsburgh Symphony (with his hair down), Conductor Frank Black (with a hot harpsichord). Official singer is pretty, sultry-voiced Dinah Shore, 23, who was born Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn., changed her name because...
...thirteen Varsity members are: Benjamin A. Barnes '41, William Edgar, Jr. '41, George H. Hanford '41, Captain David O. Ives '41, Henry R. Murphy '42, Morton Myerson '42, Arthur G. Neff, Jr. '42, Roger B. Oresman '41, John G. Penson '42, Daniel S. Porr '42, Ernest C. Staber '42, Llewellyn Vorley '41, and Joseph P. Willetts...