The Washington times., 1936-02-10

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The present trend is toward
sO-calIed "swing" music. Hot,
ragged syncOpatiOn with plenty
Of odd, almost discOrdant ef-
fects. Music Goes Round"
etc.-"Wah-HOO" are current
samples. Among pioneer ex-
pOnents Of Swing" music were
Cab Galloway, Louis Arm
strong, Fats Waller, the Mound
City Blue Blowers when Red
Mckenzie was their leader. =.
Since then, Of course, there
have been Louis Prima, Red
NOrvO, Mike Reilly and Ed
Farley, the Memphis Five, the
Six Spirits Of Rhythm-and
now, over at the Onyx Club,
just last night, I listened to .
sepian outfit headed by q
fiddle-player named "Stuff"
Smith. There is nothing
gayeF or more exciting than
this Swing" music but half
an hour Of It q stretch will
wear the strongest man out
and make weak gels faint =.
But the cOntagiOn is spreading
even to the sO-called class
bands - -LOmbardO, Whiteman,
Vallee, Abe Lyman, Glen Gray'S
Casa Iona, Richard Himber,
Ben Bernie, Russ Morgan, Ted
FiOritO, Hal Kemp, Rudy New.
man-and dozens Of others. ).
The. first band to bring back
soft melodies will win this de-
partment'S undying gratitude
:. incidentally, MuSSOlini's cen
sOr needn't have gone to the
trouble to purge "jazz" out Of
the Italian lexicon =. You
scarcely hear the word around
here any more. =. Now it's
Swing"
Among confreres Of the old
Graphic whom 1 remember with
some affection are two who took
different paths. One, Norman
KraSna, Is now among the top
flight scenariSts of Hollywood and
Of Broadway, who was
then a glorified office boy for this
reporter when he was the
Graphic's dramatic critic. The
other is Nathan ZalinSky, then
police reporter. now operating q
liquor store in Brooklyn. When
KraSna in one of the Graphic
shakeupS was let out, it was
ZalinSky who guided him to a job
on the Motion Picture Herald, a
post which Norman deserted to go
to the Coast. Recently, ZalinSky
needed several thousand dollars in
. hurry to swing a deal. He
wired KraSna. Within "a hours
the money was wired back to him
. "A case Of one young gentleman
who did not forget earlier favors
. Stuart Aliens heir, Morton, is
q precocious kid not yet four. ..
the other day, on a trolley car,
Allen paid only one fare. While
he was fumbling for the nickel
The boy piped: Daddy, do hurry
Il want to get to the radio and
hear Boake Carter's news COM
mentations" Hey, you," yelled
the conductor. "Pay up for that
kid-he's more than four years
old". We sent Doc Michel's
Chinese boy, Mock, over to see a
performance Of Lady Precious
Stream" How did you like it,
The young Oriental
sage shrugged his shoulders.
Ladies got too big feet-they
laugh much-No like"
Another little sh0wgirl here
almost tossed herself from the
window of a midtown hotel
Monday night. Present in the
room were three young men Of
town and a girl companion. d..
AS she made a dash for the
window, one Of the boys caught
her and struggled with her
Finally, she quiete- down and all
left except the chap who had
halted her. Suddenly, she made
. dive for the window again
and again he caught her and
held her down. He pleaded
with her.. Listen" he said,
'T've only been married four
months. Now here / am in a
room with you alone because I
didn't want to leave you while
you were in this mood. If you
kill yourself while Pm here it'll
break up my marriage and ruin
me because nObOdy'll think my
being here is innocent. If you
wait until 1 leave, it'll be just as
bad because all the people in
this hotel will know / was the
last to leave. VIII you do me a
favor and promise not to kill
yourself for q few days any.
how. That was Monday and
since then he has been calling
her three and four times a day
and sneaking away to take her
out all in the hope that he can
discourage her from suicide.
He's q very unhappy young man
because he doesn't know how to
explain the situation to his
bride and he doesn't dare keep
away from the other girl until
he is sure she's recovering her
mental balance.
AS might be expected, this dept
has been aSsailed with scores Of
letters since running the poem pur-
ported to have been written by
Frank Tinney but which was really
authored by Robert w. Service. (.
The most amusing, however, comes
from q prisoner at Hart's Island,
who, after bawling me out, insists
that he knows who wrote it. it