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While occasionally on numbers like "Echoes of Harlem," the band begins to sound something like Ellington, the only outstanding thing about the band is Barnet himself. His tenor sax playing on the Lester Young (Count Basie) idea is usually good, although it occasionally sounds a little like a taxi-horn on a foggy night. His alto sax work is much better, and is probably the best imitation around of Ellingtonite Johnny Hodges. All in all, it would seem to me that the slogan. "Swing and sweat with Charlie Barnet" still holds...
...seat while BBC took off its kid gloves, permitted anti-German cracks, digs at British home policy. Comic Tommy Handley twitted censorship with references to the Office of Twerps, the Ministry of Irritation, was a scream lampooning Hitler, whose mustache he once compared to a splash from a passing taxi. Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House at Birdsgarden, singing "We'll be glad when you're dead...
...Taxi and bus drivers were soon shouting the "news," Berlin postmen relayed it to housewives tearful with delight. Berlin telephone girls rang up subscribers with the glad news that "Der Krieg ist aus!" ("The war is over...
...Princeton week-end (Princeton is called Kingsford), the picture gives a fair conception of a gay time in those ivy-covered walls and takes high society for a bitter ride. Outside of that it also introduces an excellent portrayal by Lana Turner of an all too, too naive taxi-dance girl...
...student, then, is in a much more favorable position in regard to his purchases than were his predecessors not so many years ago. True, transportation facilities have been greatly improved but, alas, too late. Today there is the taxi, the subway, the automobile. They are in vain. Happily, there is also the new and square Harvard Square. And for this pleasant situation, the Coop is largely responsible...