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gon, Ohio and Indiana, Minnesota and
Nebraska, Columbia and Yale. Other
subjects filmed in the United States
include the Charleston IS. CO tornado,
the Grand Coulee Dam as 1t nears
completion, that marathon golfer on
his plane junket. the worlds largest
fire boat, preview Of the new auto
mobiles, a man who went from prison
to presidency of a $5,ooo,ooo corpora
ton and Lew Lehr reporting a beau
tiful backs contest.
Most entertaining item on the short
subject program is the Stranger Than
Fiction" release. a featurette concen-
trating on the accomplishments Of
two animals, q bicycle-riding cat and
q dog capable of opening doors, closing
windows and answering the telephone.
Gay and Beautiful Budapest" is a
satisfying travelogue, Easy on the
Ice" presents Shirley Foster, amazing
Juvenile figure skater, and Good
Scouts" introduces once more that de-
pendable laugh getter, Donald Duck.
G. A. M.
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Membership Drive
OF Civic Theater
Is Under Way.

THE Washington Civic Theater has
announced that its drive for mem
berships in the organization now Is
under way and will continue through
the run of the first show, Elmer Rice's
Judgment Day." which is slated to
open the Civic season at the Rialto
Theater October 26. Subscriptions
are to be made available throughout
the season, but those joining during
the current drive will be accorded the
opportunity to realize a substantial
saving over admission prices charged
at the box Office.
Members of the Civic company have
been enlisted as team captains for the
membership campaign and details of
their work were discussed at a meet
Ing held last night. Those aiding are
Anne Ives, Selma Klein, Bess Wilker-
son, Lena Trock, Richard Gee, lone
Jordan, Betty Seibert, Marvin Beers,
Minnie Frost Rands, Bob Miller, Hazel
Kirkpatrick, Harrison Libbey, Eileen
Fowler, Mary Elizabeth Broadbent and
Betty Leaf.
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Children's Theater
Announces PLAYS.

GLARE TREE MAJORS Children's
- Theater of New York will open its
seventh Washington season October %
at the National Theater with presenta-
ton of THE Five Little Peppers"
adaptation of Margaret Sidney's popu-
lar story. The organization is en-
barking on it's fifteenth year on tour
offering professional productions of
children's plays.
Following the opening show per-
formances will be given at intervals Of
four or five weeks. Among the pro-
ductions scheduled are Hector Malot's
"Nobody's Boy" Cinderella" Peter
Pan" Frances Hodgson Burnett's The
Little Princess" and John Ruskin's
only fairy tale, THE King Of the
Golden River"
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-"Abe Lincoln in Illinois, "
Raymond Massey in a new play by
Robert Sherwood: 2:l5 and BIS pm.
Keiths-"Youth Takes a Fling"
Andrea Leeds, Joel McCrea in story
of young loves troubles: 1855 am,
1855, 1856, 5:56, 1855 and 9:56 pm.
Capitol-"Straight, Place and Show"
Ritz Brothers in race track story:
11:l0 am, 1:50, 4;35. 7:20 and 1905
pm. Stage shows: 1880, 3:35, $40
and pm.
EarIe-"You Can't Take 1t With
YOU" screen version of the stage hit
with host of stars and Frank Capra's
direction: 10:45 a. m, las, 4:10, SIS
and $40 pm. Stage shows: l, BIAS
$50 and 9:l5 pm.
Columbia Marie Antoinette, u
screen pageantry with Norma Shearer
as the queen: 1l:50 am, sos, 6:15
and $50 pm.
Palace-"Spawn of the North" love
and fighting on the Alaskan coast
11:40 am, 2:l0, ABS, 7:05 and $50
pm.
Metropolitan -Four Daughters, d
perturbation Of Fannie Hursts novel
about sisters who are rivals in love
1870 am, 1880, 3:35, sos, 7:40 and
GAS pm.
LittIe-"The Awful Truth" hilari-
GUS doings with a mangled marriage:
ii am, los, $40, $40, 7:25 and 9:4O
pm. THE River" Pare Lorentzs IS
prize winning documentary film: 1875,
2:40, 4:45, 6;55 and e:10 pm.
Moonlight Sonata" Pad
erewskis piano artistry on a sound
track: 4:27, 6:l8, 7:55 and 9:55 pm.
Rialto-"The Birth of a Baby
widely Endorsed screen presentation of
the beginning of life: IL am, 1898,
2:05, 3:35, $40, 6:45, 8:55 and $50
pm.
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to night spots and social events
unless she Is there for professional
reasons.
S. Mr.. Dolan will pose for one pic
ture only with his wife for the pub
hcity department of Paramount. The
rest of their picture posing will be
for private consumption. In other
words, their marriage will not be
circus-iZed
I'll be coming back in years time,
Shirley and Ken-just to see how
everything worked out.
Seen and heard. Norma Shearer
takes young Irving Thalberg, junior,
to see Metros new administration
building made possible by his daddy's
genius). The only thing that i'm
presses little Irving is Louis B. Mayer's
private gymnasium. Paulette God
dard wears 100000 of her own
jewelry for her rich girl role in
Dramatic School" Wallace Beery
is told he looks too hot for the camera
in his current picture. ITO hot in
comparison with the rest of the
players" says the director. Wally
grins, AT last they recognize my
genius" E. Nearby is Helen Broderick
knitting scarf Who for?" I ask her.
For Broderick," she replies. Your
son?" query. Nome" says Helen.
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur walk
ing hand in hand down Cover street
but It is not love that brings them
together-merely the picture, Our
Wife" which they will soon make
for Columbia. Hedy Lamar in
black silk pajamas in the Metro lot
with her arms around Joe Won Stern
berg, who will direct her next picture.
And. from the look on Joe's face. he
Is looking forward to the assignment.
:. Deanna Durbin at her latest pre-
view C'That Certain Age") is rushed
through the clamoring crowd by two
stalwart policemen. At the same pre-
view Nancy Carroll is completely ig-
nored by the fans. When Nancy was
star of the screen Deanna was Just
another unknown S-year-old. The
Ritz brothers disporting themselves in
the pool at the Beverly Hills Tennis
Club, with Harry, as usual, in the
middle of the trio.
Paramount" says Mel Ballerino, a
studio casting director, used a car
load of steers for the fashion show
in Artists and Models Abroad" "
But" / begin incredulously. And
then Mr.. Ballerino explains. A steer"
in casting directors vocabulary
means a tall, slender girl-because SO
many girls of this type come from
Texas. IF needed husky beauties, "
continues Ballerino, my order would
be, Send over an acre Of corn" ct
seems that back in Iowa-where the
tall corn grows-they get 40 bushels
to the acre. Am I right?) :. A few
more examples of this strange argot.
=. Nordic type-"a bevy of gophers''
after Minnesota University's football
eleven. Creole type-"a bowl of
chicken gumbo" Fluffy, femi-
nine blonds (for which Georgia Is
famous)-"a case Of crackers" +.
Mexican types-"enchiladas d.
Shop girl types-"straphangers"
(CcpyriTht. 1888. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
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Munich Farley Tops
Newsreel Footage.

THE easing of European war ten
sion is evidenced in the current
newsreel presentation at the Trans
Lux with shots Of marching men being
replaced by views of Chamberlain, Hit
Ter, Mussolini and Daladier arriving
for their momentous conference in
Munich. Other clips devoted to Eu-
ropean affairs call attention to the
designations of Britain's Lord Duff
Cooper and Czechoslovakia' President
Benes and show Undersecretary OF
State Summer Welles explaining this
country's part in the crisis
Baseball and football vie for atten-
ton in the sports department. The
cameras have caught the World Series
in Chicago and gridiron clashes In
volving Southern cAlifosnia and Ore
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Ecenicaly, and to the extent tnat IL
constitutes a saga of the salmon in
dustry, the picture is important. But
the fact remains that its locale is so
much more robust than the talents of
its principal players that it leaves
much to be desired.
Exceptions to the quality of the
storys Interpretation are provided by
Henry Fonda, Akin Tamiroff and
John Barrymore. They manage to be
characters of sufficient stature that
they are noticeable when the whole
Arctic icefield comes crashing down
about their ears Miss Lamour, who
wears a sweater instead of the usual
sarong without losing any Of the
values represented in costume, is badly
acclimitized after all those years in
jungle pictures. Mr. Raft does not
seem happy on ice, and Miss
Louise Platt, the love interest girl, is
photographed almost invariably from
angles which indicate she and the
cameraman must have quarrelled.
The picture represents another step
In the Paramount cycle of industrial
sagas, of which Wells Fargo" was
the most recent 1t is an authentic
narrative of the romantic lives of
those who provide the drab work-a
day world with salmon salad, salmon
loaf, and salmon sandwiches. 1t pic
lures not merely the tremendously
impressive natural background against
which the industry is conducted, but
the interesting processes of making
the catch, and the more interesting
ones of competition with pirates who
infest the salmon fields.
X y X
sCPAWN OF TIE NORTH" reveals
men not only at war with raw
nature but with each other. Its
scrip lines up Fonda and majority
of the other principals on the side of
the American fishermen. Tamiroff,
Raft. and their toughs represent the
pirates, Russian flavor, who rob the
traps of the regular salmon snatchers.
The two climactic sequences are one
in which the rival groups stage
terrific battle of harpoons, guns and
fists with each other and second in
which the two groups are united IN
q terrific contest with the icebergs.
The high drama of these two inter-
1udes is in sharp contrast to
many comparatively colorless Sc
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Marie Antoinette'
Now at Columbia.

RACK for another week on down.
town screen, this time at the Co.
lumbia, is Marie Antoinette," that
imposing celluloid spectacle starring
Norma Shearer as the Hapsburg prin-
cess who became the bride of the weak
ling monarch, Louis XVI, ruler more
inclined to tinker with locks than to
rule. The court life of the era that
Immediately preceded revolution in
France was an existence of incompar-
able glitter, and Metro has brought
large order of that sparkle to its film
drama. The picture is masterpiece
of pageantry.
To be enjoyed, however, most notions
instilled by the old history book con-
corning happenings of the period and
the people participating in them must
be ignored, for Marie Antoinette"
does not pretend to be an accurate
chronicle. The Marie portrayed by
Norma Shearer is an appealing, mis-
understood lady who wants to be a
good queen, but is beset by chain OF
misfortunes. Miss Shearers playing
of Metros concept of Marie is superb.
Not so is the Characterization OF
Tyrone Power. He does an unconvinc-
ing job in the role of that Swedish
nobleman who captured the heart OF
a queen. Frightening the credit side
of the acting ledger, however, are the
contributions of Robert Morley, who
makes Louis one of the most genuinely
pathetic figuressto be brought to the
screen; Joseph Schildkraut, playing
the willy Duke of Orleans, plotting ITO
snatch the crown from the head OF
his unhappy cousin; John Barrymore
appearing for relatively few feet OF the
film, but offering portrayal worth re-
membering as the debauched Louis
XIV. Z. a. M.
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quences which come before and be-
tween them.
The essential theme of Spawn Of
the North" is grim, II you have not
already guessed that. 1t has been
modified, however, by the injection of
many comic elements. the most notable
of which Is a seal named Slicker.
Slicker Is the pet Of the piracy-tinged
Raft and he demonstrates there Is
nothing he cannot do. He talks $50
to speak,, he weeps, he kisses his mas
ter, he fetches bedroom slippers, he
laughs and in general has a mastery
of his job which should have served
as an inspiration to other members
of the cast. Slicker and the icebergs
together seem sufficient justification
for investing your money in the pic
ture.
Outstanding performance, next to
that of the seal, is that of the ever
reliable Tamiroff. As the crafty pirate
preying upon the honest salmon fish
ermen, Tamiroff runs the gamut of
the ungentlemanly instincts. Not only
in thieving, but in lying, double-cross-
ing and murder, he is the completely
convincing actor which you expect in
a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater.
The Barrymore part in the picture
is another one of those long-haired
zany characters, this time that of an
Alaska editor. The complete master
of the flowery journalistic idiom of the
frontier, Mr.. Barrymore is frustrated
invariably by the able Lynn Overman.
AS printer, Mr.. Overman listens in
tently to the grandiloquence of his
boss, then proceeds to translate 1t into
the simplest sentences possible. 1t is
much funnier device the way they
do 1t than We can make 1t seem here.
DIRECTOR HENRY HATHAWAY,
handicapped by story which
has been trite since melodrama began
and by cast which seems as uneven
as topographic map of Idaho, new
ertheless has done fine job of finding
dramatic values in the locale of his
picture. He shows that Alaska is some
country, salmon are interesting fish,
Slicker is an amazing seal, icebergs are
magnificently destructive, and Dorothy
Lamour can wear a sweater as well
as a sarong.
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DANCING.
CLARA MILLER
SCHOOL OF DANCING
DANCING.

1908 Adoms Mill Rd. NV. Col. l0209
Fall classes now fermins. as well rs special
clesses for high school students. Class and
private instruction given from 1880 AM.
10 1880 p. M daily. Experienced instrue-
tors in all types of ballroom dancing, in
ciudinE tango. rhumba. Lambeth Walk and
other specialties: Also tap dancing.
Reasonable rates. Two Of the largest ball
rooms In Washington. We cordially invite
yeu t. visit the studie without sblisat atlsn.
THE DAIGLON. To-
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studio or broad
cast station.
2. Ken Dolan is
at all times Ken
D la n, artists
agent (never Mr..
Shirley Ross.
3. Mr.. Dol a n
will not visit
Mrs. Dolan at
the studio or
radio station eX-
cept at her in
Vitation. Neither
will he act as her
10 per center.
(This was one of
tho rules in the
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If You're a Fan of the Rites,
Here They Go Again
straight, Place and Show Brings
Brothers to Capitol Screen.
Fred Sanborn on Stage. ...
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Ritz Brothers funny feowsor about five minutes
knowing the boys know what to their
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Bette Davis Harmon Nelson menage-
but it didn't save their marriage)
4. Shirley becomes Mrs. Dolan again
when her husband accompanies her
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Magnificent Locale Steals
MelOdrama at Palace
Spawn of the North Has Scenic Drama
Beyond That of Its Story
Of the Salmon Industry.
By JAY CARMODY.

majestic and the meodramat come TO- grips in Spawn Of the
a mile clearcut decisive that
magnificent phenomena making
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Much Coal in Wyoming.

There is m estimated $40, ,723, ,00o.-
900 tons Of coal available for mining
In Wyoming.
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Shirley Ross Has Five Rules
For Staying Happily Wed
She's Determined to Successfully
Combine Her Film Career
And Marriage.
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

y with Shirley
l Dolan. Shirley Hollywood
combine successfully
Shirley the marital
her Shirley
*
Shirley becomes Shirley .,.s4 .a.x
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/. Shirley Ross becomes Shirley
Ross when she leaves home for the
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THE pursuit of happiness should
lead you to the Earle some
| time this week. There, by the
- grace of Columbia pictures. is
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WoIfert
Continued From First PaRe.)

eyed reconciliation happened before
the Nations cameras. It is possible
to conclude from that that his re-
searches have been more emotional
than thoughtful, and think there's
the trouble with Rocket to the
Moon" What love and its fulfill
ment, meaning marriage. means to
the various ages of man is a hearty
subject that needs a brain to guide
1t If it's going to acquire any kind
Of meaning or get anywhere. AS 1t
Is, Rocket to the Moon" is good
when 1t is emotional and cloudy as
q fog when it grows thoughtful
(along about the middle of the Sec
ond act).
The playwright's talent for ath-
letic dialogue and for creating in
teresting characters gets a workout.
He tells the story Of a dentist who
has fallen into the sterile routine of
working and worrying, of the
dentists widowed father in law who
feels that an unhappy marriage has
cheated him of life, and of the young
girl who comes to them and stirs
them to hope of better things. The
old man offers her q fortune in re-
turn for marriage. The middle-aged
man offers. very sincerely, love
without marriage. She accepts
neither of their offers and goes her
way.
There are other characters
touched upon and touched to life
as If with flick Of the wrist. which
is one Of the compelling faculties Of
Mr.. Odets. For instance, there is
dentist, shell-shocked by the de-
preston and restored to usefulness
when he starts earning an occa-
sjonal $50 as a blood donor or a
door -to-door salesman who can't
make any money, but is happy any,
way because in the evening he can
go home to his wife,
The touches and the Group The
ater's sensationally excellent pro-
duction, distinguished by the lu-
minous acting of Morris C%novsky.
Luther Adler and Eleanor Lynn in
the leading roles, add up to a5a eve-
ming in the theater something very
much worth seeing. But Mr.. Odets
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favorite Of the London musical halls
But no studio here is interested in
taking on the combination. because
American fans don't regard Sonnie
as a side-splitter.
From where Hollywood sits amid
its laurels. brickbats and box -of1ice
receipts, the most desirable of all
three English holdouts is Charles
Laughton, academy award winner
of 1928 c'The Private Life Of
Henry VIIID.
Laughton last left these shores in
1885, after completing his sensa-
his sensational role of Capt. Bligh
in Frank Lloyd's "Munity on the
Bounty" He'd been nursing q dream
for half dozen years. and perhaps
he was determined then to try to
bring it to realization before even
thinking of coming back.
1t was to produce and act in pic
lures of his own-pictures about
English life and English people,
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Charles Laughton,
Robert DOnat
Hold Out
By Harold Hefernan.

HOLLY WOOO.
The vanity Of Hollywood is being
rudely pricked by an indomitable
trio Of English screen players who
persistently refuse to become welded
into its vast movie-making chain.
Hollywood has experienced little
trouble enticing most Of the English
acting contingent under its domina-
ton. Personalities, such as Made
leine Carroll. Beatrice Lille, Enrol
Flynn, ]. Aubrey Smith and many
others. have expressed themselves
favorably toward the climate of
Southern California-not to men
ton the average wage paid film
workers in this corner of the world,
Ronald Colman. Ray Milland and
Herbert Marshall have even adopted
it as their permanent home.
But Hollywood is frankly panied at
the attitude Of England's three die
hards." Unfortunately, from the
box-ofnce standpoint, this willful
little group comprises the real pick
Of Britain's thespian crop-one lady
and two gentlemen In a class by
themselves In their own particular
fields Of Characterization.
One is handsome, talented young
man who has repeatedly indicated
through performances abroad that
he could quickly establish himself
as dangerous popularity rival for
Clark Gable, Tyrone Power or other
Hollywood hero aces Another has
long since rolled up such a brilliant
string of triumphs in diversified
character roles, both in England
and in Hollywood. that he is gen.
orally hailed as the most fascinating
Of all screen entries. either here
or abroad. The lady in the three
way Hollywood blockout is Englands
loveliest and most accomplished
musical star.
Robert Donat. the much desired
hero holdout, frankly cannot stand
Hollywood and Is not backward in
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chances to improvise in q creative
and executive sense; that swing
opened great vistas Of varied
rhythms, developing different twists
In execution; that swing is declining
because of the extreme monotony In
dynamics, and that melody" is
coming back fast.
Further: Too many bands popped
up swing-or jazz, or whatever 1t is
called-and tried to out-improvise
and out-blast all other bands.
Consequently, that type of swing
was swung right out Of the world-to
throw the jitterbugs' phrase right
back into their own teeth.
Panassie, slip Of a lad Of Is,
president Of the International Fed
Grafton Of Hot Clubs dedicated to
making the public good music con-
scious), says swing is fading be-
cause:
Bands had commercialized the
novelty to an extent that the music
was too loud and the melody too
subordinated, often being completely
thrown away;
Most bands we're too large to per-
init good improvised harmony, the
ideal band being six or seven pieces;
Bands had been trying to do too
much and couldn't;
The public. as . whole, hadn't
heard and didn't know what real
swing was anyway.
Panassie came to the United
States few weeks ago to study the
technique of musicians over here,
and is returning to France in a cou-
pie months-if bad swing doesn't
run him out before that.
So there. you have the verdict of
the triumverate of Goodman, Kos
telanetz and Panassie, who might
write an epitaph for the musical
outlaw:
. King swing-Born, 1885; died,
1888.
Survived but unmourned by
Sweet Swing. relation unknown.
Rest in pieces"
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saying so in q loud voice. After
doing 'The Count Of Monte Cristo"
for Warner Bros he took himself
straight home to England and re-
fused to come back, though the
Burbank producers insisted he still
owed them another picture under
his contract.
If Donat ever does change his
mind and decide to return to this
country, he won't be allowed to work
for any other film company until
he fills his commitment at War
ner's--but apparently he has no in
tention of uprooting himself.
the gifted Jessie Matthews is the
musical actress Hollywood has been
trying for more than five years to
corral. She has indicated her ap-
proval of several propositions and
would be perfectly willing to give
the place a whirl-provided Holly
wood simultaneously gave a whirl
to her husband, Sonnie Hale, comic
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oUAA8oVSA0 AS0AV - AVVAAoA VIZ"
their own desire to be hotter than
hot. ~.
The evidence is seen not only In
the fading Of ultra-hot bands here
and there and the diminished ap-
plause mot to speak of energy of
rug-cutters who have fallen arches
and kangaroo pouches under their
eyes, but in the words Of authorities
In three separate musical fields:
M. Hughes Panassie, French au-
thor Of lie Jazz Hot"-that swing
ster's Bible-and an acknowledged
world authority on swing in its
various forms.
Andre Kostelanetz, symphony Or
chestra leader and music director Of
Columbia Broadcasting System.
And, ladies and gentlemen, that
king of swing'-Benny Goodman!
Goodman, who does most of his
talking about swing with his clari-
net, says the public is drifting
away from the noisy, unmelodic
type of music that most people
called swing when it descended
upon . helpless and unsuspecting
public few years back.
He says music, generally, is get
ting better, however, because of
swing, which has taught him and
his band some valuable lessons.
Kostelanetz, whose business it is
to keep his fingers on the mercurial
pulse of the public, points out
with echoes from Panassie and
Goodman-that sweet" swing is
little different from jazz, having,
however. more body and style, and
that it has laid a firmer technical
foundation for composition.
Panassie says all popular music is
swing OF a sort, and that the type
OF music now coming to the fore is
newer and better because the rau-
cous period many of the musicians
have been through have given them
an opportunity to learn their art to
. degree never before attainable.
Goodman, who helped dignity
swing when he moved into the Wal
dorf-Astoria on Park avenue not
long ago, admits his band is mod
Grating its tempo-and that should
be about the last word. He never
went to musical extremes, anyway.
kostelanetz, taking swing apart to
see what made 1t bad boy, sees a
few favorable results Of the era of
proken eardrums and sprained
backs.
He says swing gave opportunity
Tor soloists of potential genius to
make great strides, each having the