Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-28

WO X Of
ficially until pIcKyRI>c
Thursday"
The girl in blue is Betty
Limerick; she took an extra day
off 10 graduate at Southeastern
High Yesterday, and she's a
teletype operator. She worked
Saturdays and Sundays al West
ern Union for eight or nine
months 10 learn how.
We may forget about Betty,
individually, but the above par
agraphs are printed to remind
US that America IS full Of BettNs
and Bills who are doing some
thing extra without being forced
10 do IT.
SONG: The three top bands
which are on the air regularly
in Detroit are revlvlng over
There Frank Gagcn at the
Book Casino. Pancho AT the
Statler Terrace Room. and Don
Pablo at the Palm Beach. Elek-
ira RoSanSka. who started the
petitions which led 10 making
h The Star Spanglcd Banner -
Ithe legal national anthem, urged
revival of over There in con-
junction with arrival Of Amorl-
can troops overseas this week.
BIRTHDAY BALL: W 10
the Birthday Balls arc in prog
ress. there II he A party At the
Crosse lie Naval Base whore
the Raj cadets from England
get their first Amerlc an
training
Technically President Roo>e-
welt y their Commander-ln-
chef While they're here, and
hence the party
They'll have boxing bouts a.
well as a show Pancho, VIM
cent Caiendo. Pamela BrIttOH
Ethel Shepherd, Kay Travis
Irene Lander ami others. and
Jack Ferguson 5 band
Their show Will start AZ 1900
"a fiier would say nineteen
hours" which Is 7 p. m, tho
way they figure. Nineteen hours
after midnight
Lieu, l. s Nelson found
they didn't have any spotightS
for the show. 50 that Is beng
handled RAE fashion 1on--EhcN
will use a couple Of anu-alrcraft
searchlghts, with shades on
them.
Most ~ the attention viii be
focused on the BOok-Cadlllac
Ballroom. though Victor Moore,
Irene Bordoni and William GaN-
ton Of Louisiana Purchase,
viii be there and Charlie
Hughes VII have three orche>-
tras Ray Gorrcll Marvin Fred
eric and Don Rnyalc
And besides that. n lad named
Duke Ellington, who goes on
and on making music, and hap
Apens To he booked Mt the New
Paradise the week of the Birth
day Balls.
The Duke. although it isn't
generally known, has finished
writing the music and collabor-
ating on the story for film,
Its All True. and has Just
about finished an opera BOola.
which is a story Of Negro mu-
sic from the days Of slave SHIPS.
John ID. Rockefeller Jr., has
shown an interest In u, and
may. Ellington hopes, help pro-
duce the opera.
In the meantime Ellington
goes on composing tunes faster
than he can write them down.
As close as he can estimate he
has composed around 5000
tunes. Many Of these have been
recorded but have not been
published
Ellington, unfortunately has
the knaCk Of giving his muSI-
clans notion of what he wants
them 10 play They play IT,.
record IT, and forget II. and
nobody ever writes tho music
out in arranged form. So a good
many OF Duke Ellington tunes
probably will he lost
Don Willie heard them on a
bust two women talking with
accents which would have to be
heard You cant get them down
in print Add the accent your
self 10 the following:
FIRST WOMAN: You know
that Charles Boyer
SECOND WOMAN: Yuss,
yIlSs, the movie actor.
+. W. Well. ! don't like him
no more | used 10 SIT and watch
hun and heavc signs. Such signs.
But you know were lighting
foreigners now, and te 5 for
elgner, so ! don I like him no
ignore