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...nephew, famed now for having turned out some of the best dance records in England. But only three blocks away from St. Thomas' last week, Ray Noble began a job which any young musician might envy. He undertook a long-time engagement in the window-walled Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center's smart night club. Significantly, an Englishman was bringing dance music to the country which supplies Europe with most of its jazz...
...Rainbow Room wanted Ray Noble for its opening last autumn (TIME, Oct. 8). His phonograph record vogue was tremendous. He had written more sure tunes: "Love is the Sweetest Thing," "Love Locked Out," "The Very Thought of You." But when he arrived in September he found the Musicians' Union wary of "foreigners." Not until February was he allowed to assemble an orchestra. Two weeks later he was broadcasting for Coty Perfume...
...Rainbow Room customers expected to see a showman last week they were roundly disappointed when quiet Ray Noble conducted his men. His easy gestures were all from the wrist. Occasionally he tapped his foot, sometimes sat at a piano, pattered a bit. He had gathered first-rate U. S. players and, unlike many a conductor, he freely admits his debt to them. Trombonist Glen Miller is one of the best "hot men" in the U. S. And so is Bud Freeman, Noble's tenor saxophone. Only two of the musicians came from London with Noble: Bill Harty, his manager...
...pure blue or pure yellow and had a range limited to garish greens and oranges. By 1932, Dr. Kalmus had a new process based on a camera which split light through a three-sided prism onto three negatives (red, blue and yellow), which recorded all the colors of the rainbow with fidelity. By this time the only producer who would listen to him was Walt Disney, whose Silly Symphonies in 1932 were the first movies made with the new three-color process and the ones which inspired Producer Cooper to interest the Whitneys in color. Said Color Director Jones: ". . . Black...
...found, was done by a youthful sports writer on the New York Herald Tribune, William Howland Taylor. To him went $1,000 for his stories of the America's Cup Races: the claim of foul by the British yacht Endeavour, the victory won by Harold Vanderbilt's Rainbow. A yachtsman, William Taylor helped organize the Frostbite Yacht Club which sails dinghies ia winter...