Official §tuc($Ql Publication of youngstown College

Volume 10—2-581 Youngstown, , Wednesday March 8, 1939 , No. 11 Action of So Many YoCo Students Proves Spring To Be On The Way

By Jerry Wald at! Paul needs is an introduction to Ah! Beautiful sunshine, balmy Peg; then watch to see whether or breezes, warm romantic summer not "Mr. Dean Goes To Town." night—I All this is in the not too Rae Brown has been caught by distant future, for already spring— the June Bug also. Can you imagine 'roceeds of Dorsey beautiful spring-—is just around the her asking David James Nemcth "Bahama Tornado" Is Described By Rosapepe comer. If you don't believe me, whether or not he was any relation just look around the nvest corner to Jesse James? Dance to Be Donated of Youngstown College, just under Spring heralds the return of the the cafeteria window, any morning; bt:rds to the North, the return of Students Broadcast Another between the- hours of 7:30 to 8 Bob Arnott to YoCo and to Margf Play Over WKBN to Aid A. M., and you will see in a Dodge Mjrrayj and the return of John Campaign for Books truck a young man . and a young Wilson to the Casa Loma Club:— girl deciding (for o half hourl!) no not" the one where Glen Gray Friends of Youngstown College whether to go to classes or not . . is playing. Library Association have nearly and we do mean Bob Ziegler and completed their second annual drive The germ of spring has also Eleanor Nalen. If you still don't be• for $5,000, this sum being a part caught a group of boys, because lieve me, merely look into the of the desired $50,00 over a per• thuy are already doubled up with lounge and you will see Ralph Skar- iod of ten years. laughter as Andy Mclek gives his rett staking French lessons from famous illustration of Ann Norton In'a meeting last week the drive Thelma Powell while Emily Davis had gone close to the $3,000 mark.- walking into and out of the college. looks on with great concern, J Business men and industries throu• Big things are being planned, and ghout the district are being ap• Loring Sheffield is planning to re- The brisk atmosphere might be proached for contributions, and are mjiin 3weet and demure (wow!) as the cause of that twinkle in Paul being urged to acquire member• Dean's wicked eye, but we do know be.jt dresed man and best dancer in ship in this association. that it is because of a rumor that th<( life of Betty Wiggins. by Kennedy Ray graduate of. Youngstown CoUegej The library enthusiasts received Joe Reardon (Ursuline Flash) alfid •Mosquitoes and other things "Art for the public's sake," is studied art for several years in Na• a very pleasant offer yesterday our own Peg McFarland (wowI) make Phil Jones call, "Quick, Hen- the keynote of the Vindicator's ples and Rome. He was on the fac• when Tony Cavalier of the Nu- have met the parting of ways. Now (Continued on Page 3) campaign, now in full swing to a- ulty of East High School "for some E!m Ballroom, a n established waken the gencrs.I interest of the -time before becoming art critic for Youngstown College • booster, sug• public in the field of art. The above the Vindicator.. In his lecture he gested that all proceeds over and cian n print is butvone of the 48"of the brought out the fact that the move• above the expenses of the coming world's great paintings which were ment to make the public art cons• dance be turned ov• To Become A College Professor discussed and illustrated by means cious is not confined to this partic• er to the library fund. ular district, but is a-nation-wide Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, It's no news when the proverbial Mc re .important, perhaps, is the of slides*by Mr. Joseph S. Rosapepe movement sponsored by the Nation• acclaimed by college students over dog bites a man. Neither would it fact that while attending .high in assembly today. • ' al Committee for Art Appreciation. the. entire country as the number be news- if a •college professor..had school, Wilford studied' magic, and This particular picture, entitled More than one" hundred of the lead• one "'band in the nation, will visit a hidden yearning to be a magician. became one of the most adept ma• '"Bahama Tornado," was painted by ing newspapers throughout the the Nu-Elm Ballroom Monday. However,' when a first rate profess• gicians in this section. He then Winslow Homer ( 1836-19 10), who March 13 for one night only. 1 country are co-operating in the ional magician has a yen -to become sp< nt considerable time studying was America's foremost water col- campaign to bring great art within In connection with this financial a college professor, we have a sit• under several famous illusionists, orist. He was the first of the really the reach of everyone. drive for more library books, last uation which could very well be most notably Keller and Thurston. great American artists to paint the (Continued on Page Two) called news. • • ' Shortly thereafter, Hinkson started life which was about him by ignor• The pictures- arc being sold X- — " - , That is the status of Youngs• touring with various vaudeville ing European tradition. Most of his through the Vindicator in twelve town College's own magician, Wil- units. He made nine tours of the subject matter was gleaned from his sets of four, at 3.9 cents per set. ford Hinkson, who has traveled , including thirty- travels in the Adirondacks, Maine, Each set is accompanied by a pam• from coast' to coast as Wilford the seven states, and two foreign tours. Florida, and the Bahamas. This pi• phlet containing a lesson in art ap• Great,- and Wilford the Magician, While touring through the west• cture, .with the other 47 of the ser• preciation by Dr. Bernard Myers, ege Since' his birth in a small Pennsyl• ern states, Hinkson was several ies, is on exhibition in the College art lecturer at New York University. vania town near Butler,' Mr. Hink- times employed by the government lounge, having been loaned by the Those purchasing the entire series son's life has been fairly seething to quiet unruly reservation Indians Vindicator. The pictures are in full of twelve sets will receive free a Students Represent Youngs• with .activity. Having been forced by proving white man's magic to be color, through the use of a recently handsome collector's portfolio and town at Conference for World Christianity to leave school in the third grade greater than their own- developed process which faithfully an especially written book on art Being a magician is dangerous as reproduces color and detail. by Hendrick Van Loon entitled "A due to sickness in the family, Wil• Four YoCo students traveled to well as exciting. Several years ago, Mr. Rosapepe, who is a 1934 Short History of Painting." ford helped his family as best he Mount Union last Saturday to re• whun scheduled to do his famous could for five years. With two present Youngstown College in the tru:ik escape at New Castle, Mr. months tutoring, he was able to re- Radio Club Play Nears End annual Student Conference for Hirkron found the river to be fro• enroll in the seventh grade.. World Christianity at which more zen over. Rather than disappoint Last night the fifth of the series Moving' 'to" Churchill, near thj.n twenty Ohio colleges were re• the crowd which had assembled, he "The Norton Family'' was broad• Youngstown, he attended Liberty Be Held Saturday presented, cast- from WKBN, Youngstown at High School, and completed the had a hob cut in the ice, was bound Student Council will sponsor an• 7:45 by members of the Youngs• The convention began last Fri• regular course in only three years. (Continued on Page 3) other of the regular college dances town College Radio Club. day and ended the* following. Sun• 'his Saturday evening, March 1 i, The plays concern a typical fami• day, but the .Youngstown delegation, when Tut Roberts and his Orchestra ly and their church interests. Ev• made up of Paul Emch, June Wym- furnish music from 9;00 until 12:00 Hermits Inch Off IC eryone is invited to listen to the er, Nancy Findly, and Dick Thom• o'clock. sixth and last of the series Tuesday, as, were only able to be present for The dance, which is chairmaned For Local Group of Women Haters March 14 at 8:45 p.m. Saturday's program. ^ By Kenny Ray •members for the present. At any by Charles Zellars, is called The The purpose. of the conference Hermits, Inc.—a name adopted rate, it is sufficient to say that Athletic Dance. During the course wan to get ''a realistic and idealistic at their last, very closed, and very seventeen earnest youths, represent• of the evening, the basketball a- approach to world problems in the secret meeting, is the official ap• ing most of the college cliques, wards will be gives out. At inter• light of Christian teachings" and pellation by which that group of bound together by a common pur- mission time refreshments will- be wan very inspiring to all delegates. served in the ioun|;e. rganize coed boycotters, mentioned in a re• pos«} gathered at the fesiive board. The affair began with a banquet cent issue of the jambar, shall After partaking of their dollar and The various cc-mmittee heads A Mathematics Society, consisting Friday evening after which James henceforth be designated. a quarter repasts, the serious busi• include Ken Emory, Ray Walsh,-Ga• of sixteen members, has recently Myers gave a splendid address on Contrary to the usual procedure ness of the evening began. len Elser, and Fred Lanz. been organized. the Christian' Faith arid the Econo• of appealing to Student Council Calling the meeting to order, the Admission in by student activity At their first meeting, the election mic Problems of Mankind. Saturday for recognition, this group wants chairman asked for a report.from cards. of officers took place. Bill Beckman morning and afternoon all dele• no publicity whatsoever. It was at the secretary on the results of the was elected President; Joseph B. gates divided into six discussion the risk of his journalistic neck recent under-cover campaign for Newman Club Communion Kenny, Vice-president; Elizabeth groups varying from "Chritian Mis• that your correspondent acquired more house-dates. The secretary Church, Secretary: and John Kciser, sion's" to "Racial and Minority Pro• this first-hand information as to the announced that although many Breakfast to Be March 12 Treasurer. • . ; blems." At the banquet Saturday Hermit's activities. Through the broad hints had been dropped, not The Newman Club will hold its After mathematical games were evening. Dr. Karl Clayton Lee- grapevine press association, • the a single invitation for a house date communion "breakfast Sunday mor• "played, a pleasing lunch was served brick, president of.Kent State Uni.-

Jambar learned of the meeting had been extended to any member ning, March 12 at St. Elizabeth's by the hostess, Mrs,. Foard. Each ver;tity> spoke on Christianity and- which was scheduled late on a par• of the group. Hospital. guest was received by Dr. Foard's International Problems. IFollowing ticular evening at Raver's restaur• After this information, it was Reverend Howarc Sammon, the little son. this came a social and recreational ant. It was a simple matter to dis• immediately voted that the group club advisor, will s»y Mass in the The following are members: Wil• program. Sunday, church service guise as da Japanese bus-boy and put their boycott into effect,'.at private hospital chapel, and break• liam Stambaugh. Ted Grizinski, Si• was held for all delegates in the eavesdrop. leasi until the Junior Prom. The fast will follow immediately after• dney Kulikoff, Tony Piccolo, Paul Union Methodist Church. . Not due to any lack of freedom fact was brought oul that while the wards in the dining hall. Newman Emch, Harold Estcs, Fred Obenouf, • The Youngstown delegation sep• of the press, .but under threat of members were dating, ' they had members are asked to have iheir Edward Lyich, Carl Schroch, Joe arated upon, arrival early Saturday a punch in the nose, we find it ad- neve r been able to enjoy each reservations in a f-sw days before Mikita, Larry Kundis, and Daniel morning and attended four of the . visable to withhold the names of (Continued on Page 4) the affair. Agnone. . . "six extremely interesting Seminars. Page Two THE JAMBAR Wednesday, March 8, ! 939

By Mueller Business Students Dig"

Pioneer Pavilion will be the scene of the second winter dance of the Business School on Friday, March 10. Tl Dancing will be from 9 to 1, with By recorded music by the best bands in the country. The affair will be m Betty Jean strictly sport; as fellows and girls may wear sweaters. Wile The committee includes Gladys With Jean 5a use ' Mitchell, chairman, Mary Louise Cunning little Betty Marsh is hav• Piper, Stanley Orlo, Betty Roberts, Bright little girl is the coed fea• ing herself a time during Lent—no Peg Raymond, Russell Bebb, Helen tured so frequently on our campus. sweets, and that means nix on can• Lindberg, Betty Snyder, Wilda Clothes with the guidance of "Mad- dy, pastry, '"cokes" ;tc. Saw her Winfield, Betty Fmnegan and Mar- moisclle", conversation with sprin• the other evening rafuse a rum jorie Russell. klings of Dorothy Parker, correct on E. Post, more fun than monkeys and butter to-foe—a carmel to you. The admission will be 25c per at a circus, that lovely, saddle- That's the o!J W. P., Betty. person. shoed demon is in the process of being educated. It takes more than . Among those to be present at the "You cute kid, you", a ^whiff of ultra-gala affair in Cleveland, April tears in Yardley's skin bracer and a high first, when the opera "Tosca" will Film at Park Theatre pressure goodnight peck to be able be staged are Bill Semple, Blaine to tell the boys she's a pushover. ; Gerdes, and Mickey Reinchr, who "Moonlight Sonata * starring Pad- You've got to admit, although -she- have added a little culture to their erewski is now showing at the Park conceals it rather well, she's learn• modes of living from all appear• Theatre and will continue for three ing.' (Yeah, I know, that's the trou• ances. (I'll be seeing you, boys, days until Thursday, March 9. The ble.) Just to show you what educa• 'cause I'm going that night, too.) film is an appeal to the music lov• tion will do, here's a sample of Travelers Safety Service ers of the district. what floats about in her brainy in• Padcrewski, 76 year old master tellectual topper. Genevieve Grenner. and Yours "We were on a three-lane highway in heavy traffic, end the dope of the piano, former Premier of his Machiavelli, besides costing $5.50. Truly have discovert d interests in native Poland broke his retirement a dram, was the.guy who told our common. She's a former Miami thouflht I'd let him nass MEI" in Switzerland to star in this picture modern' politicians how . . Avis University student, and knows which was made in" London. Pade- Hibler scrubbing away vigorously quite a few people I hat I know rewskt's last appearance on the with her pink tooth brush. Mariam from-there. Jenny's vibrant per• Old Wick Home Gets "Sprucing a concert stage was about five years :Bascom, Jim Miller, and Joe Voile son to reminisce with. Up" Under Remodeling Program ago, when he playecl for charity. produce a smooth job of harmony The picture commences with a ... As Margaret Heasley put it, "The old house ain't what it used sary hunger for education. Thank you, Carl Rosapepe, for concert by Paderewski in a large the seats in chapel after the first to be." The long vacated house, defending me so gallantly! Overhead the students will see a modern concert hall, and during the fifteen minutes are like downy, which stands next to our college, —o— decorative beamed ceiling and per• picture; the Maestro plays ''Moon• fledging 'bathtubs. . . . Connie* will' soon burst forth into shining haps the heavy-panelled lower light Sonata" Liszt, Chopin, and Porter and Tiny Wells scaring their Who'll be the next contender to beauty as the remodeling work is walls. Some of the seven bedrooms his own ''Minuet," sandwiches . . .Mary Jane Plen- lcecp;Kenny Ray's hands warm in now under progress. Old walls are ; on the second floor will be "thrown There will be no advance in derleith is contemplating; the poss• class^sin.ce Jayne Stone doesn't come being torn down; old pipes are be• together" to make several larger prices for the picture. ibilities: A man with1 a past, or a to school anymore? • ing replaced by new ones, new win• rooms. man with a future? . . '. It look* dows are replacing the old ones, etc, l - * ^ The college expects to - spend as if Bill Gubbins has given up hope The broad South veranda, where $10,000 renovating and modern• Huikson. to Become Professor with his sunshine . . . P. S; Andl Student teaching is beginning to the'younger set jived in the'gay 90^ izing the homestead . Up-to-date this time, don't blame it on me. . >, show on Van Couit already. He will provde a-unique classroom for (Continued From Page 1} lighting fixtures will he installed Al Frced's new parlor game, button, looks tired and worn out, and he's the typing'students. The veranda is and city steam heat will be substi• and locked in the trunk, and was button . . . Vincent Lynch being complaining about Jack of sleep already enclosed in glass which wilt tuted for the present heating .sys• elusive behind the Chemistry lab and .lack of meals. It seems all he be removed when the warm^weath- thrown into" the water. He perform• tem. Heavy linoleum will cover desks, Vince, you -don't have a gets;done is rush, :.-ush, rush, and er set3 in. ed the escape from the trunk with floors throughout the building. his .usual ease, but when he came chance . . , That very smart and lie has no time left to eat—but Scenes from Venice still hand a- to the surface of the river, he clever Myron Noll stamping through that's only one person's opinion. bove the doorway of the northeast Rumor has it that the business found himself under the ice, having the teaming rain for five blocks and living room. The plans at present school students will be able to oc• then remembering he parked his car The night Jo Fusco dropped in at are that students will attend class cupy the house in April, and that been carried down stream. After in front of the college . » . Jean school all done up in her white in the dining room, as the psycho, enough space will be left over for remaining under water for over Zebroski, more fun . . . Sugar and nurse's uniform, she caused quite logiqal effect will furnish the neces- at least one recreation room. two minutes, he finally was able to spice and everything nice — Betsy a sensation, and quite a few heart find the hole and escape. Another Findley. . . . Dave Legninger and palpitations, too,'I guess. time, while exposing spiritualism, Telephonic Talk by Mr. Chase several spiritualists came upon the J?ack Leedy with apples in their stage and challenged him to allow pockets . . . Who was the disil• Paul Hrabko is aching to -find out them to tie him and then to make lusioned woman who cried, "He has what, or who, is keeping Jerry Provides Interesting Program his escape. The magician could not no heart!" when Bob Baugh's pulse Wald away from, those nig>.tly The talk by Mr, Chase, of th<; lefuse in front of the audience. was tested? Hope you noticed the "Coke" sessions, umps. . . . Just an idea, of course, Ohio Belt Telephone Company on Employees, and again for the Amer• They had about one hundred and Howard, but maybe the Phi Lambs telephonic equipment last Wednes• ican Society of Mechanical Engin• thirty feet of hea^y twine with if there is one word that irks me, are having a bigger dance with day provided one of the most inter• eers. He has lectured in most of the which he was bound so tightly that it s the word "cute." How that more ice cream . , . Leonard esting chapel programs of the year. cities of .Ohio. circulation was impaired in his poor adjective is overworked is Skeggs seems to have -become a - Although obviously handicapped arms and legs. After a terrific really something! People are 'cute,* household word in the Patrick fa• by the limited assembly time, which struggle, he was able to free him• things are 'cute* — most anything mily . . . -Chuck Jenkins thinks forced him to omit much and refrain Library Drive Nears End self in seven minutes, bu t was and everything can be termed 'cute.* Annie is lovely, just lovely . . from going into detail on many (Continued from Page !) bleeding so profusely from the Mr. Webster defines it as being Martin Witt, a healthy shade of points, he successfully held the in• Sunday the Youngstown Branch of rope cuts that the performance was clever or shrewd, but I shudder to rose, carrying Peggy MacGoogan terest of hia audience far into ths American Association of University forced to end. think of the ways in which these (Continued On Page Three) four letters get used. I confess that noon hour. Women "sponsored a playlet from Hinkson has trmd his hand in the I'm guilty of overworking it. jDne of the most popular features WKBN directed by Prof. Russell G. business world, having owned a ba• **> —o— of the program was the man who Bunn, Virginia Johnson, Patsey kery for oyer a year, but prefers Stanly, Paul Dean, Fran!; Stewart, Picked up via reading, radio, etc. talked with the aid of an artificis.l entertaining. Of course, there is a Girls! Our New (This is being repeated by special larynx. Also very interesting wo.s and Charles Zellars took part in the Mrs. Wilford Hinkson, who assists request. I'm sorry I don't know its that piece of trans-oceanic radio program which was in the form of her husband in his performances. "Linen La*1 " origin, or to whom we are indebted telephone equipment that turned a round table discussion concerning They have a young son who is now for this bit of philosophy, but in the speech upside down by changing national and international affairs in the second grade. face of so much insincerity and high tones to low tonea and low to with reference to books now in the It is the ambition of the magician college library and other books that flattery, it is appropriate to repeat high. A humerous item was that to change his title sometime from are needed. it now.): "It is rarity that gives "Mae West", said into a microphone Wilford the Great, to Professor Although the library has an out• value to all things, especially com• equipped with such an instrument, Hinkson, and to instruct in Psych• In Luscious Shades standing selection of books, it must pliments." Think ibout this a mo• comes out "aw heck." ology and Philosophy. be enlarged considerably over the ment. . After closing the program, Mr. next few years to keep pace with Chase was occupied for some time the annually increasing enrollment. • One of the moat refreshing song answering questions of the more in• discourse, the company adjourned Definite^ specifications on the size hits of the season is **I Promise quisitive members of the student at a late hour, after mapping out a and content of college libraries in You." That tune wears you out run- body who gathered on the stage course of combination dinner-for• Brilliant as spring flowers . relation to ^he size of the student ing through your mind just as that to get a closer view of the equip• ums. Before leayip'* the chairman . . fresh.as the paint on, body ond courses are laid down by '.'Umbrella Man" r.umbcr did. ment. stated that any Itroa-v.;; Social stand• your front door! Linens and accrediting organizations. Later, Professor Bunn, who was ing the Hermits might encounter piques that will bring out the very interested in the artificial lar- would be more than compensated best in your new spring ; French sentry: "Halt. Who goes nyx, and discussed enunciation a:id by the intellectual growth attained Hermits Inc. Is Club Name suits 1 there?"' breathing wilh the man who ussd (Continued From Page !) through their regular round-table It in the demonstration, discovered other's company at dollar and a discussion a. Voice: "American." (Sportswear—Second Floor) that Mr. Chase was one of his for• Sentry: "Advance and recite the quarter stag dinners. It was agreed It is expected that the recently mer speech students. that the convivial conversation 'Star Spangled Banner*!" declining fad of ' knitting will be Mr. Chase has given his demon• : which took place was worth the raging rampant -within a short time Voice: "I don't know it.*' stration twict! before in Youngs• price of the meal. • if the Hermits remain as resolute as McKelveyY Sentry: *'Proc;cd, American!" town, once for the Bell Telephone Stimulated by their intelligent they seem at present. January, 1939 Price Five Cents'

Sentimental Gentleman Wins Two Music Polls

Tommy Dorsey was acclaimed the world's outstanding trom• bonist and bandleader in two polls concluded this month by leading muslo magazines. In tha annual poll for the best musicians, conducted by Metro• nome, Tommy rode into an easy Tommy Dorsey leaves the Hotel New Yorker this month, after a rec• first place -position as the world's ord-breaking thirteen-weeks' stay, to make a road tour through the East and Middle West. He will return to Father Knickerbocker's Playground, best first trombone player.. however, in the early spring and spend the entire summer of 1939 high It has often been said that it isn't how old a story is, but He was given the Orchestra the manner in which it is told that makes it amusing. The atop the Hotel , thus capturing one of the most sort after Woz'ld Achievement Award as dance orchestra assignments in the metropolitan area. the outstanding orchestra leader, capturing first place In a close ; '• ^ Tommy and the boys finish in the race among his contemporaries. New Yorker's Terrace Room at the stroke of midnight, January 10th, leaving to make room for Brother Jimmy and his band, who begin their engagement there at 12:01 a.m. January 11th. The combined closing and open- :ng of the two bands of on the same night is ex• pected to be one of the musical lfy the Last of the Moe Kgans highlights of New York supper-room Arthur Schutt, ona of the nation's history. top arrangers and pianists, turned Following a broadcast from New to leading his own band last fall. York on January nth. Tommy's Band substituted for'T. Dorsey at route for the beginning of his tour Hotel New Yozker during Wednes• will be:. day night commercial broadcasts Jan. 12—. and is now on vaudeville tour for Jan. 13-17—Hartford. Conn. Benny Meroff. Following-" vaude Jan. ia—New York City. stands, band gees on its own again Jan. 19—Open. under Schutt's guidance.. .VI Mele, Jan. 20-26—Newark, N. J. former vocalist with Johnny John• Jan.. 27-Feb. 2—Philadelphia. Pa. son and more recently with Jimmy Feb. 3—Johnson City, N. Y. Dorsey, joins Ji.ck. Teagaitden's new Feb. 4—Pottstown, Pa. band...Charlie Barber, former bass Feb. 5—Waterbury, Conn. player with Fred Waring, has his Feb. 6—Worcester, Mass. own band at 52nd Street's Bandbox. Feb. 7—Boston, Mass. ...Jack Jenny, one of New York's Feb. 8—New York City. leading studio trombonists, also on Feb. 9—Open. 52nd Street with his own crew, play• ing at the Onyx. Feb. 10-11—Charlottesville, Va. The tour starts with a one-night The original Spirits of Rhythm engagement at the famous Roseland ara planning on getting together Ballroom on New York's Great again, Leo Watson being back from White V/ay, The last time the band his tour with Gene Krupa.. .It's p:ayed this spot was Jast fall, the The Dorsey band takes to the mm not news anymore, it being quite night the East had been swept by a road! Freddie Sluice looks at the some time sines the parties con• hurricane. route ahead of him as the sign cerned were married, but as yet we From January 13 to 17 the band haven't seen eltt.er welding recorded points to his home, in the oppo• 4 * site direction. Deep in its coating will appear on the stage of the State in print, so we announce the tie- Theatre in Hartford, a special five- bindings of Guitarist Dick Morgan, of white snow, New England beckons the band for its first stop. day engagement. ex-Horace Heidier now in Holly• Returning to New York to do a wood, and Pamela Hall, sister of bioadcast on Wednesday, the 18th. m Handy, radio scripter, and in Wash• the band moves on to Newark, New ington, Carl Ganzel, Earle Theatre Jersey, where it plays its second story of Tommy Dorsey's life, which' varies in length with pit trombonist, and Ginger Lee, vaudeville engagement, being feat• its age, has been told in all manners, and always seems to dance band vocalist. ured at. the recently reopened Shu- Jack Stacey, i;axophonist in the prove amusing. W.e have no ri'jw slant on the^oa^tjiQl^S-bJo0;- bert Theatre for one \veek begin- ""'jag Friday, the 20th. raphy, but we do hope .that !>y combjgm The following Friday -;Tommy and narration that have been used we top m lis company open at the Earle The- ,-.ord picture of the country's icadin _t;-e in Philadelphia, their second "lgagement here within a year. In Tommy, or, to be correct, Thomas'* coast...Sid - Brokaw, ex-violinist both the Newark and Philadelphia Francis Dorsey Jr., was born of a wtih Ozzia Nelson, doing studio theatres the Raleigh-Kool radio pro• pretty breezy morning in the month For years I've wanted to write a Program Features work in Hollywood. Wife Martha grams will be broadcast directly of November, 1905. The date, the newspaper column. Now that the Mears, also getting some assign• from the stages on the Wednesday nineteenth; the place, Ma honey Guest Artists opportunity presents itself, I don't ments from the picture factories . nights of the engagements. Plains, Pennsy •.•hat to write about. I'm told a ns George MacKinnon, Boston's wi.i since then have Connie Boswell led the parade of sed to write about sing- Two weeks of college and ball• irst box gossip collector for the Da seeing the light •tiest stars who are appearing on ink I'm more in a posi- room dates follow the close of She^an- Record, turning cut tunes almost doah, but, no, Ma honey Tommy Dorsey's .d, rather than write the Earle Theatre stay, beginning Plains. the >Mgh v Sx m , The fonts did mak eir ho :mo^|\a ' ~~ '*^"aS;|f% rip. h City, ^en^||KriiS|i nrjv touring S's third in Shenandoah dm*: Tom i 3ni#4 W^' til0 tm childhood, and it was jjjhat to1 ddIeM|vest^P^-w finishing • the past rornnw's S8ll-st|P| amj$|jb.r [§3|'ng loma®! engageipnt, .returns r within that he was raised. T f'hp she ny become a musician at thtSgjoast to make rames^^ST will hgffhe follow• movie for P^.raM>unt.. .Fred Hde't- at hank- my startling, because his father was the Pied Pipers, an octet of rhythm ing night's appeaj|JLri|f at Sunny- ter, partneK&pFthe original Onyx lungs in song, natural best music-teacher in the Keystone lingers, on the next two. Waiter brook Ballroom ifllPoxtstown, Pa., Club, releasettfroin the hospital and thing to do. State in those cays, Just as .he is 5'Keele is scheduled for the nest Saturday, February 4. recuperating from, a jserious illness That we're all singers at heart is '•today.:; *>ne. Moving northward from here, tha .atHhis hi people who can't boys play a one-night stand at tho So it ivas that at a very tender While there will probably* band Jll break down and age Thomas Jr. began exhaling into jrnest artist each week, it is n Auditorium in Worcester, another ley ari 3t after a tew nips return visit in less than a year. various types or wind instruments, 1 pcrative under the new poll mens DO Some of the best even before he began to assume the The following night, Tuesday, Tom• one appear. Should someone who quartets in the country will be worries of grammar school. It can has a definite association with Tom• Kirby's crew . . . Shirley Lloyd, my plays in Boston at the State be said right here that Tommy my or music be available, he will former chirper with O. Nelson and found on the highways, four un- ; Ballroom. Although the band has showed unusual promise from the be the guest; Otherwise, the entire H. Kaye, said to be readying her appeared at.innumerable ballrooms outset and, even at the early age •an sections of the Huh three, got more tone quality out |f, ed in the city itself for a tin horn on Hallowe'en than anjf and'hops, this will ba grownup in the town. c dance date in Boston Tommy's early training in tl o seasons. field of music was pretty gener ng night finds the band Like his older brother, Jimmy, 1 _ again for its commer- broke in on the trumpet, and to*^ famv broadcast, then southward gether the boys did some mighty barroom teams. Even in the best On the tenth and eleventh fine duet work. As a matter of fact, night chjjjs you'll .find the fellov nces at the Uni- even today both Tommy |||^| Jiffipiy iwic§p|noJ e's been ri a in Charlottes- play a mean load of trp^§epM hcer$fyl|Fi yej|sF»i CAN sing, EJze dance en- confidentially, prefer P®'§fe|||| e pro the opposi legiate calen- instrument to the ones I """ Tommy Ooi oesn't t and so has they are Identified. This;'! fcoyayfir. tra can be ft< lie! one-nighters, is getting a little ahe; Wednesday JI ,e; o you go h and west- stovy. wifcpl a repeal insert room wit a one-week's coast, going over those stations Going back to Shenandoah, we Moon" was the choice. During the bar. without running across a stay at the Stanley Theatre; fur• at f:X0 PST, the Red Network of find the town band in sore need same week he was elected Honorary couple of boys who throw their arms ther westward to the Lyric Thcatr* President of the Downbeat Club of the National Broadcasting Com• (Continued on V&st Eleven.1 the Notre Dame University. pany; > {Continued on Page Ten.) (Continued on Page Ten.) Page Two TUB. BANDSTA^P January, 1939

Sanfonl Burns Gluskin Johns

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By TALBOT JOHTVS any music at all. There's one fact. The same day, in, comes a fan let• Radio Publicity Director. ter from a girls' business school In By H. JOHN GLUSKIN Batten, Barton, Dursthie & Osborne Ohio. "Dear Tommy," says the let• ter, "we all love your music, and Bv IIEKB SANFOUD To start my career as a column• Publicity, in spite of what you play your records while we work, at ist, I'd Intended pointing out the read in the papers, is not a racket. our typewriters. We spoke to the - Visitors at Tommy Dorsey's variot\s departments included in an It's business, with, rules, just like head of our school, and she installed Raleigb-Kool broadcast often are orchestra. I guess you can cover curious about the little ;lass cage that subject pretty well for your• known as the control worn. Al• self, by merely turning the pages of though the stage and the control Tight Spot this paper. room are at opposite ends of the The average 'person knows little studio, these two points are kept in about what goes on behind the constant contact through various By ROBERT BURNS scenes of the successful dance or• bits of sign language. chestra. Nine persons out * of ten The sign language, wr.ich some• asipre to be bandleaders at some Perhaps the question most fre• times bewilders and amvses people time or other and a fourth of these at a broadcast, is really a very quently asked me by my friends and (a f:ood number) have seriously •small part of it. It's what goes on former classmates is, "What are started to follow the trail of music in the control room through the your duties?" until they found the going too dis• whole process of rehearsal and coursing. I guess I must have a mysterious broadcast that makes it important A young chap who would be a sort of position. Most everyone to the show. bandleader doesn-'t need advice. He who knows nothing of it concludes You might call the control room need;- courage, ambition and deter• beforehand that it must be pretty the funnel through which the en• mination—plenty of each. easy. (I guess' -that's because I tertainment material flows to reach It'll a tough fight and a long one. manage to hold it down.) Their listeners at their radio sets. The Bandleaders who are pushed into next assumption is that it must be value and interest of the material prominence overnight seldom last. highly entertaining and sort of a \ get across to the listener to one de• If they do, it's because they have twelve-month-a-year vacation in gree or another, according to what the ambition to work day and night \ A happens in the control room. night clubs, dances and proms. to slay there and make full use of Perhaps the most important per• True, we're always on the go the breaks .they've, been lucky A* son in the control room is the engi• playing the brighter night spote enough to get. Offhand I can think neer, who is master of that mass of around the country and sometimes of nj top maestro who won his post gadgets and buttons which com• hibernating to.less conspicuous cor• through a break 'he didn't earn, ners of the U. S: A. But whether prise the control board. In front Bs.ndleading is no eight-hour-a- of the engineer is a scr.es of "fad- or not it's highly entertaining and day job. I don't exaggerate when I ' Publicity and news, ull at once, broke into the nation's papers ers"—a separate knob for each mi• vacation-like, depends .entirely on say there are many occasions when last March when Leo Fllxpatriek (left), manager of Detroit's Sta• crophone used in the bioadcast. By one's viewpoint and in order to get the man with a band will have to tion WJR, cut Tommy arid his band off the air for swinging the turning this knob, left or right, a a better picture of the situation, particular microphone can be faded let's go back to the Question first put in an unbroken twenty-four or Scotch folk so»g;s. This picture was taken when the two met, some in or out. There is one for the mi• proposed, my duties. thir-y-eight hours of steady work. months later, and used with much success. crophone in front of the brass, one Waving a baton is the least of his The duties of an orchestra man• any other job. Press agents, like for the microphone which covers worries. ^ " a phonograph and a speaker for UP. ager are multitudinous and detail• anyone else, have to pull a few She says we actually do better w< <;K- reeds and rhythm, another for the WTien you think you're ready to ed. Their purpose is to render stunts once in a while, btr; for the If we type in rhythm to your rmisj*.';- vocal and dialogue mike, and still take on your own band, be certain assistance to the Ieaderin whatever most part the publicity for a radio There's the second fact, and. be• another in case .there are solo piano you:: supply of aspirin or bromo—- form it may assume. To begin with, artist is issued straight' down a tween them, a darn good little-story, passages. Tne engineer operates as you prefer—Is ample. The head• there is the highly important prob• well-regulated groove. It has a which Is sent out to 72f newspaper, one "gain" control which regulates aches are many and come fast. lem of finances. These are handled definite purpose and a definite des• radio editors, 13 radio ian maga• the over-all level or volume of the entirely by the manager, under the First, there's your library. You tination, and is printed as regularly zines, 12 radio trade magazines and whole broadcast. direct supervision and guidance of don't get places by playing stock as any other news. 32 radio editors of news services the leader. arrangements. That means expense; In the control room, the sound like the Associated Press, United or, if you do your own arranging, comes out of a loudspeaker, just as Next in line Is personnel. All the - For the best publicity is news, and Press and others. Amplified by pic• it does from a radio si t. However, members of the orchestra look to your own undivided, attention, for facta—the things that are ;:eally go• tures of the girls*, school-and the it is not the volume of the speaker the manager for information about weeks. A band Is no good without ing to. happen or have happened factory, it makes a good-: feature which guides the engineer in operat• future bookings, transportation, a Urge library. - The details of Tommy Dorsey's radio page for radio magttzincr. Tne ing the gain control, since the dress, report time and such items of Then, your men. They must be programs are printed every week in chances are that clippings from pa• speaker volume is usually amplified. detail. hand-picked and picked carefully. the country's newspapers as regu• pers with an all-over circulation of larly as the doings in Washington about ten million readers will be re• The engineer judges hi.*; level by the If a" man becomes suddenly sick Don't be too anxious to select your or the fluctuations on the stock ex• turned to Tommy's publicity office, '•V. I.,"' the needle known as the or unable to play, the manager has closest friends. They may not pay change. Tommy's program detail is which isn't bad for an average little vcKmie indicator. He knows that a problem of getting a satisfactory any attention to you when you try this needle must maintain a certain to tell them off about a mistake. called publicity, the Washington story that started out with two facts substitute in a hurry. activity Is news, but they're both level, fluctuating within certain Listen to as many men as you can. and the theme that people who work Then there is the mail, divided news just the same. limits, in order to make the output Track down every good man you do better than average if they listen into two classes—fan mail and busi• to Tommy's music. on the air right. ness mail. Fan mail is handled by find and learn his availability. Like - Gaul, radio publicity is divided into three parts. The first is Several of us (including Tommy's a secretary, -.usually, but business, Rehearsals are next in line. The third type of publicity is the regular, week in and week out arrangers, Paul We'stcin. Axel mail is given prompt and personal Here's the test. You'll find some' of known as the "setup" or the "stunt" news of the type Just described. The Stordahl and Deane Kincaide, and attention of the manager. your arrangements aren't up to par. and means just what it says. It in• second concerns the wealth of detail part of the time. Tommy himself, Others are too tough for the boys. volves Tommy or some member of There are the various problems that radio fans like to know about listen during rehearsal to get the It'll cut the heart right out of you. the band In a situation that does of arrranging -suitable, comfortable their favorites, and what are called proper "balance." That means After you get one of your toughest not ordinarily exist, but which transportation facilities between "personal paragraphs" — little simply getting the proper relation arrangements down pat, one of makes a funny, spectacular, inter• engagements. The proper handling anecdotes that concern Tommy, his between the different sections of your boys will walk out on you. It esting or out-of-the way story or of radio programs also tails to the home, his family, the color of his the orchestra. . If the relation Is happens every time. picture. This type of publicity al• lot of the manager. All programs shirts, a riew man in the band, a right, then t-he effect created on most always involves a picture, and must be submitted to the broad• You need a reputable personal special arrangement of. a tune that the air Is the effect ior which the is usually done exclusively for one casting stations several days ahead representative, unless you're well is causing comment around the' arrangement was conceived; if the magazine or newspaper. A picture of the actual broadcast. acquainted with the ropes of the country or anything under the sun relation is faulty, then the effect of Tommy driving the Twentieth business. Let him worry about your that is of interest. The third kind may not get across to listeners even The musicians' union is the direct Century Limited or steering the bookings—if you're lucky enough to of publicity is the seiup, or the though it is a good arrangement contact of the manager, ^and, be• "Queen Mary," for example, would get any—and, for the time being, stunt, and that's the l

Herfurfc Mince Stulce Rusin Shertzer Sheets Illustrates Sax Player A Hat, A Snapshot Recalls One Inspire Confession Big Moment By ARTHUR "SKEETS" Fingernails By "HYMIE" SHERTZER HERFURT. By FREDDIE STULCE And Old-Timers Wow! Do I feel *"high" this eve• I guess I have the distinction of ning! Maybe it was the hat my wife being - the only musician in the Well within the realms of a sad- wore at the program the other eve• country to have played in all three sifted knot, this fellow muzzled In Bother the Babenin g or, well, maybe it was the visit of the Dorsey orchestras, first the Bv JOHN MINCE on the Greater Dallas Public High of my musical buddies of 1925. Dorsey Brothers,' then Jimmy's School Band to go to the World's Yessir, 'way back in '25. I was and now. Tommy's bands. Fair in Chicago, there to reveal .a Well, it's the final day to get this By "BABE" RUSIN a-swingin out on the violin—a mad "wahoo" to let them know there genius (by golly, isn't that enough Maybe it would be a good idea to column in on time. I should have was a Texas. to make a guy high?) My old pals tell how it all came about. Just figs in there someplace, because all In making my debut as a col• came down to the hotel with a about this time five years ago. my life I've been getting my figs The fact that I hadn't seen a umnist, I would like to establish Smith Ballew came to with snapshot showing our lively quin• and dates mixed. Guess that ex• public school since my last year of the fact that I do so upon request. as his musical direc• tet in those bygone days. Were we plains why I've gotten such a late grammar school escapades, didn't This is not my own idea. tor and arranger. Harry Goodman, deter me arid so, by thumb and a bunch of cats! But it was a good start on this thing. However, somebody asked for it, Benny's bass playing brother, had crumb I managed to go. Before so here goes. start and darn good practice for all just lift the band and Glenn The toughest part about writing leaving, however. I had to quit my this music that was to come later I suppose I should start by in• scouted around Denver and found a column is, "What to write about ?" job as nth player in a three-dollar on. Would you like to hear about forming you of something or other Roscoa Hillman, present guitarist How I took up the clarinet'? It's a a night

Ferrelti Jacobs Lawson Kaminsky

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It is our aim to make THE BANDSTAND as entertaining and educational as possible. In• asmuch as each bandleader has 1 By MAXIE KAMINSKY his own idea and method of Nu t Surprises; leading his orchestra and aU arc By DAVE JACOBS Tommy just told me, before I left Bv ELMER SMITHERS outstanding successes in their i Girl Screams; j the Terrace Room, that he expected various styles, we thought you - Q : a column from me for this paper. might like to read what they Like the chef who refuses to have "John Jones and his Famous Or• G have to say about this baton anything more to do with the fcod Ot course, that means I'll have, to chestra." Cite OCraiT&S \ waving business. Would you be after he prepares it, even refusing | ! stop thinking about boats in my The lights flickered on and oil interested in reading the why's to eat it, so does the arranger con• j j spare time andstart thinking about before the tired but happy face of and how's of the various leaders' sider bis work done when he turns 1 Bv "YANK" LAWSON I sometning that'll interest you the boy whose name blazed m the methods? We'd like to know, so in ,his score. That is where the { * i fellas. mazdas. please drop us a card if you would. copyist comes in. Here is a little story about an ex• j Did you ever think about boats— 11 mean really think about them. A At sixteen he had discovered m The copyist's work is, quite nat• perience of a good friend of mine, i boat is a wonderful thing. Not a himself a deeply .imbedded desire to urally, copying the arrangement, whose name will not be mentioned ! big, big one or not one too small. play a saxophone. It was strange, part by part, or, as the case may this new feeling of wanting to con• because he has since been wed. We'll ! Just an ordinary, well, an ordinary be, transposing it from concert i lobster boat for instance. They're quer a • thing with push buttons. just call him "Jim." form, so it will sound something • almost the best boats in the world, The problem of getting a horn like the arranger intended when Jim had a date after we finished i At least, that's how I feel .about, worried him, but, at last, as the re• the boys with the instruments start tlie job in Dallas one night. At the j them. sult of a swap, he obtained what he interpreting the markings. time, both of us were playing with I I think everybody in the whole thought was the "horn supreme."' And there, in the transposing, is the Crosby band. The girl was ex• i world should own a boat. Not big His practically brand new .22 nfle where the headaches begin. • was gone, but imagine—HE HAD ceptionally beautiful and Jim was ; fancy ones. Just plain ordinary By AlNfDY FERRETTI Some arrangers are careless in A SAXOPHONE! really looking forward to a very j boats, and have a lot of food on the scoring, not always intention• j them. Big steaks and lots of vege- John lost no time in learning to has been a major pleasant evening, as he was com• read. He spent every available ally, but due to high pressure speed | tables and a radio and a victrola topic of conversation and newspa- \ pletely jiistified in doing. After a minute studying the art of playing and rush orders from the leader. and a whole big bunch of good per and magazine literature for' Others make a perfect score, but few sociable drinks at one of the the sax, practicing scales, develop• i just about three years, yet nobody j records and a little bed with a hun• ing his technique. Finally, to his the copyist butchers it so there are local hot spots, Jim and his new• dred blankets on it. 1 seems to be able to define it. Ilot s of mistakes that weren't even ultimate satsifaction, he termed ; Countless articles have been writ• found acquaintance decided to go When I get my boat I'm going thought of by the arranger him• himself a musician. ten by. reputable magazine contrib• to live right on it all the time. self. to her home for some scrambled He remembered, as lie?,faced the utors, yet none seems to be able to eggs. Then I won't have all those cars marquee, the remainder of his high definitely put his finger on a phrase It's quite a job to make a per• At any rate, it was one of those whizzing by me or I won't have to school days. How the boys used to and say, confidently, "That is what fect copy. One arrangement might dismal nights, gloomy and raw, such walk through a lot of crowded get together with their instruments swing music is." Orchestra leaders be a copy. The next one may be a as Dallas is wont to have on occa• streets and get bumped by a lot of and prominent musicians of the transposition. Usually they are rush to jive and jam. How they elected sion in January, and the house was people and my boat'll be nice and him to beat off the tempo and re• swing school have been interviewed jobs to the copyist, in much more quiet and drift with me and I'll eat of a rush than when the arranger quite snug and comfortable by com• lied on him to keep them in the and asked to define this style of up all those steaks and climb into was given his "rush" orders on parison. groove.. .how these sessions in• playing. Every mother's son of my little bed and I'll just be think• them. And there, in the rush of stilled in him the desire for 'lead• them gives a different definition Jim and, we'll call her Dorothy, ing how silly I used to be when I being copied, lots of accidents pass ership... how proud thy were of and, nine times out of ten, one that were sitting on the divan chatting by without being seen. There is al• didn't have a boat and only used to their little six-piece band. ..and, can hardly be fathomed by the lay• when Dorothy brought the subject ways a hazard of .listening to a just think about them. 'Cause oh, all those things that were so man. around to a man who had been an• football or baseball game or dance they're wonderful things—boats. important. Swing isn't as complicated as all noying her with his attentions. It or concert music on the radio while seems this man was a bit insane. \ After high school he"' had many that. There's nothing new about it, • Maxie will probably get his you are copying. Thus you find your As a matter of fact, he'd beep in plans about his rise to fame. "Why, so why all the ignorance on the work completed with a 40-yard run boaf. Ordinarily he'd write and out of the hospital for the in• he'd rock the music world!" But part of our public? It's about time through the middle. about trumpet playing, but, as Mother had other ideas. And then, somebody told the folks just what sane 2. number of times. Jim you see, his attention is on other too. there was Dad, who ..thought swing is. So, I'm taking it upon Thus the trials and tribulations listened to the story with esger -things. Lee Costaldo,, who knows' music was a pastime and law was myself to, once and for all, give of the poor copyist. Some, of course, ears and a funny .feeling gradually nothing about boats, will write on THE profession-. Why, oh why had THE definition of swing music, as are very proficient in their work, chilling his spine. The how: ing trumpets next issue. he always harped about being a clear a definition as can be given. but their script is bad. Others, vice wind outside contributed an esrie lawyer when he grew up! Swing is versa. Some are slow, not always a sound effect. The outcome was the inevitable. detriment but a handicap, since The insane man, so Dorothy said, Much to the satisfaction of Mother copyists are generally given their followed her everywhere. She load and Dad, John Jones tracked re• work at the last minute and told been forced to move from one apart• luctantly off to college. One good to get it finished the following min• ment to another to avoid him. feature, and the only one John ute. Others are fast", but in their When she added that he'd threat• speed lack the necessary attributes could think of, was the opportun• ened to kill her if ever he saw her of their work—being neat, clean ity to organize a really smart dance with another man, Jim completely and as letter perfect as is humanly band. That thought made the col• lost his appetite for scrambled eggs. possible. He was stammering out a hurried lege business more bearable. Ward Silioway, trombonist in the explanation about an early re• He remembered how quickly he The perfect copyist is one who orchestra since its or• assembled a group of crack musi• embodies all the good points men• hearsal that he'd suddenly remem• ganization, joined the Tommy Dor• cians and laughed as he recalled tioned above—speed, proficiency, a bered, when there came a terrific sey band, replacing Moe Zudicoff. the kicks they had had playing minimum of mistakes, a clearly banging on the door. The mad Moe, who / has been with the dances for fraternities and such. legible script, and the ability to man! | T. D.'ers since the latter part of the And how the girls acted like jitter• edit and proofread an arranger's | Jim, running frantically around ! summer, joins 's or- bugs, truckin', flat flottin' and even score. I the apartment, couldn't find even [ chestra. getting in the Booge Wooge, all When you find one. who fits-into | the semblance of a hiding place, j Ward plays a clean trombone, ex- within eight bars! And the ear- that mold, hang onto- him. He'll ] while Dorothy _ stood in the corner\ celling in either sweet or swing, bending after each job at the local save you time, money and lots of j wringing her hands and murmur-I having had plenty to do in both eatery. griping. If you happen to fall into ] ing, 'iHe'll kill us both." A very ; departments while with the Crosby He tried to remember his first that category yourself, then hang I comforting thought at a time like j ensemble. He has also had quite a move after college. Oh yes! The ink onto yourself, fellow, because you j that. ; bit of experience in the was hardly dry on his sheepskin have a mighty fine future in your | Finally, out of desperation, -Jim ; style and sHould be of help to any when he fairly flew to a booking field. took a run and dove head first I up and coming trombone sliders 1 agency to see if they could place through a window. Luckily they j who plan to concentrate on that di• his band. He was sorry to disap• If you'd like to know anything were on the ground floor and the vision of swing. point Dad about that little office, else about this copying business room overlooked a lawn, or our' Beginning next month, Ward will but whoever heard of practicing Well, that clears up that. True, and what makes it tougher, or if story would have a sad and some• join the members of the brass sec• law when one could play the sax! Andy is a rather quiet fellow, but you have a few things you'd like what sudden finish. He swears tion who write columns on this page 'Four weeks at the Palisades was he'll loosen up and discuss freely to know about the musical Flit- he ran for blocks, thinking he could and cordially threatens to take on the best the agency could do, but any problems you have on trum• gun (trombone), Mr. Jacobs will feel the hot breath of the maniac all comers—questions, that is. it was a thrill to John to see his pet tooting. be glad to oblige in his next col• on'the back of his neck. Finally name on the dotted line. He had umn if you'll just drop him a line. he came to a bakery shop, in which signed so many contracts since, he he Bid behind the flour barrels he didn't; so, aside from the finish, reminisced. He had been awed by fice he'd sit behind that new New Broken Record while the baker called the police. it's a pretty good story. the money available in the business. desk and say over and over. "Oh With an escort of Dallas' finest, Undoubtedly there should be a Then John Jones' smile broke into Boy! No more jitterbugs! My own THE BANDSTAND is not meant Jim returned to the house, ex• moral to all this, but I can't imag• a wide grin. He heaved a happy- bed every night! And never to to be used as a medium of boasts pecting to find Dorothy badlj; man• ine what it Is. Maybe It will seal sigh of relief. Yes, soon he'd have have to do another one-night of the accomplishments of Tommy gled. But Dorothy had a little the lips of. our numerous critics his little office in his own home stand!. Yes sir. Mother knew Dorsey and his orchestra, but, be• more composure' than Jim, it seems, throughout the land who are eter• town. He was so happy he had best!"" ing full of holiday spirit, we can't and had contained herself fully nally branding our brotherhood as that sheepskin with those impor• very well keep quiet about the new while she talked her demon lover "crazy musicians." The lunatic in tant'letters. "I guess Mother was Elmer may come through with record they hung up in the Hotel into going quietly home. The po• this case Is NOT a musician, the right," he mused as he recalled her another story about what's what New Yorker's Terrace Room: Dur• lice found him there and e:ised sane man is. v persistence in the college matter. in the music business, but he'll ing Christmas Week, concluding him off to the hospital for the in• It had been fun, all the glory, also answer Any questions you with New Year's Eve, Tommy and sane again, and now Jim is tap- Next month, "Yank" will desert pily married. For the correct fin• the barnstorming and the monev. may have .tr.-garding trombone the boys rang up the highest record the true story field to concen• ish to this story, I suppose he Yes, he had enjoyed it, but, he playing, if y< s'll just drop him a for a one-week period in the his• trate on answering questions on tory of the room. should have married Dorothy, but vowed, when he had that little of- . line. hot trumpet tooting. January, 1939 THE BANDSTAND Page Five

Tough Smith Mastren Traxler

Piano Players IN DIALECT A Newspaper for Musical Students and Fans By CARMEN MASTREN Published Monthly by BANDSTAND PUBLICATIONS, Inc. A pencil sure feels funny in my nist hand after holding a guitar for so 521 Fifth Avenue — New York, N. Y. long. Maybe I should have studied journalism instead of music now EDITOR Bv HOWARD SMITH By GENE TRAXLER that we've gone literary. As one JACK EGAN The fiist thing a budding col• of my home town (Cohoes) politi• The first essential for a good umnist should do is choose a sub• Tommy Dorsey, TromboneContributin— gCarme Writern sMastren ' , Guitar cal leaders once said, "Ladeez anda tone on a bass violin is, naturally, ject. I believe I read that in a book Bandleading gental-a-men! I don't know for Howard Smith, Piano somewhere, many years ago. Well, a good instrument. However, the Elmer Smithers, Trombone what am I gonna talkin' pa what Gene Traxler, Bass all right then, a subject. What will finest bass in the world can be just Dave Jacobs, Trombone Davey Tough, Drums it be? Perhaps the European sit• I'm agonna say!" a tiny bit out of adjustment and Ward Silloway, Trombone Freddie Stulce, Saxophone uation? Yes, that would be a fine That would be a good opener for the tone will be affected tre• Andy Ferretti, Trumpet subject, if only I knew something me, because I haven't been able to Hymie Schertzer, Saxophone mendously. One note may boom "Yank" Lawson, Trumpet about it. Washington would be decide just.what I want to write Max Kaminsky, Trumpet "Babe" Rusin, Saxophone equally as bright, but I'm afraid my about in this here now Dorsey out and the tone just a half step Jack Leonard, Vocals "Skeets" Herfurt, Saxophone knowledge of Washington is lim• Band Epistle. But there is one higher or lower will hardly be Talbot Johns, Radio , Clarinet ' ited strictly to the backstage of the one thing I'm definitely not going heard, along with being very un• Robert Burns, Management Earle Theatre and one night club, Herbert Sanford, Radio •* to do and that is write about swing. true. Paul Wetstein, Arranging the name of which I can't remem• After reading what most people H. John Gluskin, Law Always keep your bass .in fine ad• Deane Kincaid, Arranging ber, that featured a good swing write about that subject, I'm con• justment, having repairs by an cx- Paul Bolognese, Copying Richie Lisella, Transportation band. There are a few. other ave• vinced I know as much about it as per fiddle maker. Lyle Van, Radio "Axel" Stordahl, Arranging nues open—what the well-dressed they do—nothing! man is wearing column, badminton The suggestions in this column I suppose I could tell about a few and checker column or an advice to pertain to getting the most out of the lovelorn column. Hmmmm, let funny incidents that have happened your bass viol for dance work only. me see! in my short career as a guitar To get a stronger and clearer tone, player. About six years ago, for in• especially when using pizz. bass, I'd I have it! A gossip column! stance, I was working a few club suggest keeping the strings slight• No, that won't do. I never hear jobs with, hold tight now, "Maestro ly higher than usual, but not too any news, 'way over there at the Anthony Pasqual De Martini and much so. This has a tendency to With this issue, THE BANDSTAND makes its debut and, piano, until it's stale; so that's out. his Broadcasting Orchestra." He make the tone sound harder and A sports column, mayhap? But no, spoke with an accent so thick you also takes out a certain amount of we hope, many friends. what would a musician who works couldn't budge it with the Queen the depth of tone. Mary. seven nights a week, plus matinees, I keep my strings about five- The primary purpose of this paper is to serve as a means plus recordings, plus radio broad• I remember one night we were eighths of an inch high at the spot casts, plus rehearsals and' just a of furthering musical knowledge among students and fans going to do a date and we were I pick the bass. This is approxi• plain old plus, know about sports? to meet on a certain corner at a mately three to six inches above alike. Each member of Tommy Dorsey's orchestra has his own Spots would be more appropriate. certain' time. The band consisted the end of the finger board. Don't column. We hope that through this medium young musicians, It just looks like I'll have to write of nine men and, as it always will use this, however, as the exact place, trying to get their start, may profit by the experience of some about music, hard though I've tried be, only three showed up on time. since it will vary on different in• to take a different slant on things When the rest arrived about a half struments. Usually, the lower you of the boys who have already fought their way up the shaky in a musical paper. hour later, De Martini pointed to pick, the harder and more respon• ladder of success. ^ ' Tommy suggested I'write a Ques• his wrist watch and yelled, "Come sive the tone. Find the section on tion and answer column for pi• on a'fellas! Da clock she's aready your bass for the strongest and This issue serves to introduce you to the boys who will anists and arrangers. That's a and we ain't!" roundest tone across all four stringsv mighty fine idea, I think. Only one Another night when I was playing henceforth devote their literary efforts to answering ques• and then stick to it always. oversight. There are no questions with the same band, a girl, feeling " Take it'easy on the right hand, and answers to fill up the initial tions and discussing general problems in music. In addition to quite romantic, danced up to the but really push with the left. The column. So, added all together, that stand and asked for a song with more pressure you use, the more departments for the various musical instruments, there will be leaves me with absolutely nothing "spring" in it. Anthony turned solid tone you'll get. Try to make about which to write. And that, features on vocalizing, orchestra management/ radio produc• 2round to the band and said, "Ho each note sound like an open string. dear reader, is just about all I've kay, boys. 'Whispering,' one, two!" tion, phonograph recordings and musical conditions in general. written—nothing! Never pull so hard that the strings It all goes to prove you don't collide with each other on the fin• Whatever stones appear on Tommy Dorsey and his band I honestly pledge myself to give have to know your language to be ger board. That's a very important next month's column more serious a bandleader. Remember the tune, thing to remember. Pick mod• will be kept in a general vein, newsy, entertaining and aa im• thought, however, and in as sane "Oh, How Am I To Know?" An• erately and you'll find your tone and sober a manner as possible, thony used to sing it, "Oh, How I will come out nicely and carry press agenty as possible. answer any questions that might be Am To Know!" And this is no ex• farther. forthcoming on the art of tickling THE BANDSTAND will be published each month. If you aggeration! Sometimes you may get dis• the ivories. I will not guarantee to gusted and think you can't hear are not already on the mailing list, just send your name and make any correspondent the life of Carmen really knows a few your bass very well. Forget it! As address to Tommy Dorsey, 521 Fifth Avenue, New York City. the party in two easy questions, but things about swinging out on the I will do my best to help him along. a rule, the tone carries 'way abovo We would be interested in knowing if you are a student and guitar and will take a hand at the other instruments and can be So fire away, Gridley, but not too answering any questions you care deadly an aim, pleasel heard clearly in any part of the at what school, or if you-are a musician. to toss his way. auditorium. On slow sweet tunes, when play• ing two beats to the bar, hold the tone for a full value beat and make it sound like Arco bass. This same principle applies vice-versa when bowing. Be careful not to drag the bow or anticipate the beat. Always blend the bass and the bass drum There was a time when a drum• manship figures in the success of mentions showmanship and drum• and the people will think .you're as closely as possible. When play• mer just had to beat good rhythms the man at the drums. Don't get ming in the same breath. ' I could terrific. ing four -beats, use a lot of walk• on drums to hold down his job,' me wrong, now. I don't mean a go on for paragraphs praising Gene's During intermissions you go be• ing bass, but always keep the basic there in the background, unnoticed fellow can be a showman on drums, work, but it can be summed up hind the bandstand and, with the bass notes on the first and third by the public. play them poorly and still get to the much better by quoting the results help of two of your buddies, get beats. Play your notes short when Now, however, if you're studying top. The primary purpose of the of Metronome's poll among musi• strapped into a strait-jacket. .If doing four to the bar, the art of knocking traps around percussion instrument is solid cians. In that poll the boys who you've played the average twenty- Frequently the E or A on the.p the bandstand you probably can do rhythm to guide the band. Without really know their stuff' voted Gene minute set, you should be- almost and G strings carry an overtone well to take a course in dramatics that you can be the best showman the country's best drummer. back to normal in ten minutes and from "the E and A strings. The tail and contortions on the side. Show• in the world but you won't mean Probably the easiest way to "go ready to cut loose again. gut or wire may cause the same manship has grown to be a most a thing as a drummer. over" with the public is to really After drumming several months trouble. The latter can be prac• Important factor in this business of The average person who watches get lost in your work. Forget the you'll probably notice yourself shak• tically eliminated by rolling up a being a musician, particularly in the a band probably doesn't know people and let yourself relax, pay• ing a little, even when you're not piece of cloth and sticking it under drum department. whether the drummer beats a solid ing only heed to your rhythm. working. Don't mind that too much, the tail piece, between the bars and I don't base any statements on rhythm or a loose one. That's no You'll find your head bobbing, in for it will add to your color, even tail gut. ' ^ personal experiences. I don't lay insult to the musical intelligence of time to the bass drum pedal, and though not to your health. People The former can be remedied by claim to being a showman. I never the public. The folks out front that will muss up your hair. If who see you walk by will think stopping all the strings across the heard anybody say I was a show• have too many other things to no• you've forgotten the people you evi• you're either eccentric or just have board with either right or left hand, man. -I chew my wad of gum, shake tice. It's'the boys in the band dently aren't looking at them. You rhythm right down to the roots of as convenient. f my head a little, smile when I get who'll notice the flaws in the must look somewhere, so you just your soul. In closing, I'd like to express my rhythm. , a boot out of anything, and just stare into space. That gives you a But, to ape the sign-off of my conception of a good dance bass enjoy playing my drums the way I My tip to ambitiou; drum stu• weird, glassy look in' your eyes and contemporary, Sidney Skolsky, don't violin player: like to play them. Maybe I should dents is, "Get your rhythm down people will think you're a madman. get me wrong. I love drumming. One who plays the correct bass go in for the wilder display of en• pat first. After you've mastered Swell! By chewing gum you un• notes either in two or four and thusiastic playing, but I've always that, go in for your showmanship, consciously have your mouth mov• If, in spifc of what Davey says doesn't fill in runs as a bass trom• felt it didn't suit my appearance.; but take it a little bit at a time." ing. Every time you kick your leg in the above article, you still per• bone part. He strives for tone and I'd rather appear quiet and, more Don't get me wrong. I am not when your foot slips you'll bite your sist in playing drums and would plays in time and tune. He fol• or less, harmless. casting any shadows on Gene tongue and make a funny face. like him to discuss your prob• lows the drummer in simple style But you've probably noticed as Krupa's drumming. It is only nat• When you pound your finger with lems seriously, just send in your rhythms and plays two or four beats much as I have how much show• ural to think of Gene when one a stick you'll make a funnier one questions. with the bass drum. Page Six THE BAKDSTAND Page Seven

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Jack Leonard and Adelaide mid Tommy Dorsey as they ap• Moffett, joclcty songstress, drop peared on one of Tommy's re- into New York's Onyx Club to Ceil* ^VMl^A^. — — T. exchange a few vocal choruses. on this program that Tommy Waller Winchell recently pre• Bang for the first time, doing a dicted a January "blending," but duet with Shirley. thev Insist they're just friends'.

AMATEUR NIGHT The ^reat€st array of amateur swing musicians ever assembled—Jack Benny, Dick Powell, Ken Murray, Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross. T. Dorsey, fa the right background, was paid'for his part In the show, so can't bo classed with the rest of the group. The occasion was Tommy's amateur swlnj; contest In Hollywood last summer. First prize of seventy-five dollars was given to the Community Chest when the applause meter showed no favorite. The band has not played any engagements together since then, although the members have done okay In picture and radlo;work Individually.

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Hcre we Gnd Tommy and POLITICS OR SWING? SO TMT^i QWTNfif Tommy goes over an arrangement OV AIAXO onii^ui y 1 UMXll^O UXt DVYirHU. District Attorney Dewey, of wlth gcrcen gtar AllM Fa 4 They New York having a chat, but whether Tommy was talking polities, worked together in Rudy Yallee's band geveral years ago, but that's Dewey was talking swing or the two were just playing tlc-tac-toe, is a BtiU no reason why Tommy should keep his eyes glued on the music with so gorglss a creature by his side. , AffFM' Introducing Tommy detail on which our reporter slipi>ed up. Sorry. * Dorsey, publisher. WHAT GOES? ""^ Here we have Mr. D. being fixed 11111111111 Ram* «» by the Twentieth jCentury-Fox Insky and' "Axel" Stordahl lay- N ttiakcup chief to a fashion befit• ing down on the job. They both ting a newspaper publisher. claim they d,o their best work on a golf course.

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£11 ilae Groove Tommy strolling with Claudcttc Colbert. While in Hollywood Connie Boswcll, at the right, re• Tommy watched Claudette film• cently a guest on Tommy's radio romm re RHYTHM" OF TttTC VOTAT, VARTRTV y ahy gets a boot out of the-Med Pipers, the octet of swing ing "Za Za" and made a mod• program, gets together with the UUA VA XZIXJ v, UVAL V X .,>?ingcrs he discovered ln Hollywood and brought to New York for his ern swingcroo for the famous Maestro for a bit of good humored program. They proved so sensational on their debut with Tommy tha they've been held over for second and third weeks. Notice the hand dance, calling it "When Za Za "jive." of the chap in the left background. He used to play trumpet and f-ing rs each note as he "la de da's" it. T)oe§ the C:-n Of<" left). Page Eight THE BANDSTAND January, 1939

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By DEANE JKINCAID

It seems to me, the Dixieland Bv PAUL WETSTEIN that a pop tune is the safest way of breaking into the field. Every style originated 'way back in pre• band has plenty of standards in Bv "AXEL" STORDAHL war days, built around the Negro • The arranging department of the its library. I know if I hadi\'t been styles played in and around New' T. D. organization is handled by told this in 1934, I'd still be running three full-time arrangers plus sev• around town looking for a Job with From observations of various Orleans. eral boys in the band who lend a an advertising agency or radio, sta• bands, including our own, I'd say By RICHIE USELIA Dixieland Is essentially im• hand when the going gets rough tion. At that time, against my bet• the first thing a person should get provised, whether written or not. If or, once in a while, tear off some• ter judgment, I arranged a tune when he wants to become a good My first one-nighter with the thing on their own .hook. called, "Pop Goes Your Heart," written, ifc must retain the sound of band was at Vilianova College, brought it around to Joe Haym'es musician is a good camera. being improvised anyway, thereby The three full-time members of early spring, 1936. I had started and got started thai; way. I had This may sound silly. It undoubt• the staff are "Axel" Stordhal, Deane with the band during its stay at. becoming too complicated to lots of another one with me at the time, Kincaid and myself, and, within, edly does. But in the last few years the Commodore Hotel in New York people. It sounds "muddy" or as if - the band, we And Howard Smith, a wouid-be "hot" arrangement of the camera craze has-gained such City. At the time, my job was driv• Carmen Mastren and Freddie Stulce, "I Know That-You Know," and if there Is too much going on. a foothold on the, musicians of our ing the band bus. all capable of turning out fine I'd given him that one first I'd Let me explain why. First of all, We spent that period doing one- arrangements whenever called upon. still be behind the backstop. The grand nation that a. fellow just a style must have its origin in some• nighters around. the East, During score had everything up to and in• isn't "hep," as the jitterbug saying one's playing. I think we need go When a tune comes in to be ar• a date In Worcester Tommy thought cluding "The Last Chord." no further.than ranged, Tommy looks it over and goes, unless he rolls his own film. he'd have, some fun with the boys can decide at a glance which one The job I dread most, but, which for our idea of that style. Of course, Personally, I go in for the movie and so, while the band was playing, of the three full-time boys will is actually a lot of fun once it's he got it 'from someone else, but he variety, perferably colored stuff. had me attach a bomb to the motor. handle it. Each of us specializes •started, is making vocal arrange• went so far ahead that the style can Our trip to the coast last year gave A "bomb" is a little gadget loaded in one or more particular type of ments such as "Sweet Sue," be called his own without being un• me some excellent opportunities to with powder, with wires at either arrangement, thus the decision at a "Yearning," "Who," etc. The tech• fair to anyone. get the best scenery our country end to connect to the ignition sys• / glance. Deane handles all the nique is to get a whole list-of old has to offer. And, believe me, I tem. When you step on the starter 'blues" tunes and songs that can be song titles, a sound-proof room and took them. I have a' lot of shots it makes a long whistle, then there's So, using Louis as a basis for our treated in a Dixieland style. "Axel" a few sandwiches, lock yourself in of the band — some funny, some a loud explosion and the car gets style, let's delve into the rest of it. specializes in sweet arrangements for' three days and finally emerge pretty serious — and, all in all, a filled with smoke—but no damage Try to imagine Louis 'way back on the order of "Can't I?" and "X with the vocal background. You good evening's entertainment for done. in his early youth, when he played Hadn't Anyone 'Til You." My job are then told off in no uncertain anyone Interested in our band and with a small band. Early record• consists of tiie jazz pop tunes, nov• terms by the boys in the band when After the dance the boys piled the trips it takes. ings indicate piano, banjo, trom• elty pieces and an occasional swing they learn they have to sing again into the bus and grew impatient as bone, clarinet and the trumpet, takeoff on an old favorite like and you wonder if life is worth• I stalled around to kill time. Finally Louis on the last mentioned. "Carolina Moon" or vocal back• while after all. Tommy's another movie camera on a high-sign from Tommy, I fan, owning a 16 millimeter job. The lead part, or whatever melody grounds such as "Who" and "Sweet But it's all a lot of fun, any way stepped on the starter. Tnere was there was to be heard, came from Sue." Mines an eight. He has enough a whistle, an explosion and then all you look at it. Whether my co- scenic stuff to start his own travel• the trumpet. The clarinet played a arrangers agree, I do not know. that somke. The boys made a bee- sort of duet harmony (whenever it In giving arranging hints on the ogue bureau. - ' line for the door, but their speed popular tunes of the swing type, They can speak for themselves in Johnny Mince is our most ardent was possible to follow one so great their own columns. was slow compared to Bobby Burns, as Louis) and the trombone filled in it might be said that the one most candid camera fan, I think. "Skeets" our manager. Too . bad nobody important thing to keep in mind is Herfurt runs him a close second— the holes, giving a faint suggestion Paul Wetstein will be glad to clocked him. I'll bet he sst a new of bass now and then. The clarinet to keep the arrangement as simple or maybe Hymle Shertzer gets that record. We found out the next" day as possible. offer any assistance ho can to position. Anyway, they're all top part was, in general, just above the persons interested in arranging he did better than train time from trumpet in harmony, rather than When I started making arrange• notch photographers, which makes technicalities. Just drop him a Worcester to Boston. For a big below, and the trombone . player ments, I used to knock myself out it pretty tough on the boys in the line. fellow he sure did move fast. usually had the most work to do as piling junk into the score until I band because you never know when a result, filling in the -third har• finally thought I had everything somebody's recording your actions After I'd been driving the bus mony at times and the holes left by I knew in three choruses—and I on film. Howard Smith and Paul three months, Tommy got rid of it, Copyist Praises breathing spaces and the in-be• probably did have. At any rate, Wetstein are two of our newer con• so then I took care of the instru• tween phrase gaps, as well as the the results sounded awful. The verts. ments and music. By ;his time Work of Arrangers afore-mentioned bass now and then. first thing I had to learn was' to we'd opened at the Pennsylvania The Casa Loma band is full of So it .is that the trombone part plays "keep the thing simple." cameras, both movies and still. Hal Hotel for the summer. When we By PALL BOLOGNESE finished there we went on one- the most important role in Dixie• Often four good bars in an other• Kemp and most of his boys are nighters again, only this time land writing. wise ordinary arrangement will im• ardent" photographic fiends. So are It is wonderful to remember Tommy chartered a Greyhound Bus press musicians and the general most of Ozzie Nelson's boys. And With the style being based en• instead of buying his own. public a lot more than a whole something my grandmother used to in nine cases out of ten the fellows tirely on improvisation, there Isn't page of "out of the world licks," say to me half a century ago: all develop and print their own We'd usually arrrive in town much of a definite system to go by "augmented seventy - second "I don't want to die because I films — except, of course, when about an hour before starting time. in writing it. When a bunch of chords" and thirty notes to the bar. they're on the road. That gave me enough time to set boys get together and jam; there learn more and more every day." In doing that you find yourself One former musician, Charlie up the instruments on the band• isn't much of a coordinated sound with so much stuff there that what She was 89 years of age. Now I Peterson, bass player, is now one of stand. I never lacked help because to the music. When an attempt is good material you have is, all buried share the feelings she expressed New York's leading 'commercial whenever we stopped there always made to write "that sound" for a and never can be heard. For the in those days, for I too find my• photographers. He found out,-he were plenty of fellows just waiting like Tommy's, with three' same reason, modulations shouldn't could make more money pressing a for a chance to carry in the mute trombones, three trumpets and five self still learning things in this be too long and vocal backgrounds bulb than pushing a bow, so he trunks or bass or drums just to get reeds (clarinets), one must not get shouldn't be so complicated that the changing world of ours. bought himself a mess of lights, inside to hear the band. too coordinated or it won't be a very true ring of Dixieland. When one singer needs a compass to find the Every day I do copying for Tom• rented a studio and shoved the old This past year we went out to the gets too involved, people stop their melody. .It seems the best rule to my, copying musical scores written bass fiddle into a corner of the at• coast by way of Detroit, Chicago ears. All in all, it's a dangerous follow is. "When in doubt, leave it tic down in Jersey. and Denver. We did a broadcast in perfect taste for a public that business. out!" The chances are ten to one Now, I don't say it's imperative in Denver and then Tommy decided demands variety. Naturally, I study. nobody will ever miss it. you be a picture snapper to get to take a vacation and spend it in But carry on, we can't stop here! Whlfe copying those scores, I note* Voicing in popular jazz tunes is ( along in music. But statistics do Denver. The very next morning The best way to study Dixieland, pretty much routine. It is up to j that I never find any repetition prove that music and cameras get about one o'clock, however, he woke as any other style, is to listen to re• the individual and best learned by | from one arrangement to another. along pretty well together. So, if me up and told me to get the car cordings. But you can't 'be too you are wont to get your union card modern to go back about 15 years. experience. One thing to remember, iFor their work in this Jield I want ready. I thought he was kidding, however, is that close -voicing is al• and a chair\ln a big band, maybe but I found out twenty-six hours When you go back that far," you find ways safe, unless it causes the to praise our youngest arrangers, it wouldn't be a bad idea to take later he hadn't been, 'cause that's crazy-titled, apparently meaningless trombone men to blow their brains Paul Wetstein, Deane Kincaide and up photography on the side Just as when we arrived in Hollywood. That tunes, such as "Sugar Foot Strut," out trying to reach C's. Then open "Axel" Stordahl. The first one, a hobby while you're practising your boss of mine sure doesn't waste "Ostrich Walk," "Muskrat Ramble" music lessons. up the brass. energetic in swing; the second, time once he decides to go some• and others, besides an endless place. variety of "blues." The question often comes up, novelties in swing; the third, sweet "How can I get a start in arrang• So much for cameras. t Having Blues are particularly good to in swing. Our trip to the coast was very in• ing? Should I send a standard done with his pet subject, pho• work with, but they'd best be left teresting and even I had a chance swing arrangement to a baud and I wish I could find words to say tography, Axel will now concen• alone for the time being. It would to meet the people I see in the mov• hope it will try it?" ' > more and more in praising those trate on his life's work, arrang• take too much space to discuss them three gentlemen. I hope In the ing pictures. I met Bing Crosby, To do that is as much a waste ing. His specialty is sweet tunes, this month. future to explain many more no• so if you are bent on becoming Dick Arlen, Sue-Carol, Andy De- of time and effort as sending an - The^first step, then, is the intense tations of how the Tommy Dorsey .vine> Ken Murray and lots of others. original song to the George Spelvin an arranger of sweet music, drop listening to recordings of those who organization enjoys playing the One day Wayne Morris took me Music Publishing Company, Inc. Axel a line. We'll try not to have came from the old school of New music I have the privilege, of copy• over to the studios to watch him Your manuscript will never be tried a photo finish. Orleans jazz. There are numerous ing. work in "Brother Rat," and then over. had me as his guest at lunch. At musicians to hear—Armstrong, King In future issues of the Band- Byron Snowden currently con• The best bet is to make the best the palomar, where the band played Oliver, Paul Mares, Johnny and Stand, Paul Bolognese will an• ducted one of the most popular possible, and simplest arrangement for five weeks, I met Robert Taylor, Baby Dodds and others. I'm not swer question on copying ar• programs in Northern New England of a currently popular tune. If pos• Barbara Stanwyck, Don Budge and much of an authority on records, rangements. . and Southern Canada (WQDM, St. sible, find out if the band you've Gene Mako. having derived what I know from planned to attack has an arrange• Albans, Vermont), broke into radio long association with several boys ment on the tune. If not, the Let nothing go to waste, is the in Troy, N. Y. His first assignment You see, even the fellow who car• from , playing the style chances are the leader will be policy of successful bands. The was to announce a dance program ries the instruments in the band according to the way they had ad- pleasantly surprised to receive an other day at rehearsal a new ar• of a local band. Playing guitar in has a lot of fun out of his Job. No 'vanced it to the present time. arrangement on a popular tune he rangement sounded a little too com• that band ' was Carmen Mastren; sir, I wouldn't trade my job for doesn't have, and if the arrange• plicated. "Hey, Paul," called T.D., Now we find Byron offering his lis• anything. I'll tell you about the Deane specializes in Dixieland ment strikes his *ancy he'll prob• "take some of these notes out and teners a paper in which a column time Tommy sent me on some and Blues arrangements and will appears under Carmenls name. ably use it. save them for another arrange• errands by airplane—but not until gladly answer questions and dis• Small world, or something, what? The main thing to remember is ment!" next month. cuss problems in future columns. January, 1939 THE BANDSTAND P;ige Nino

The Tommy Dorsey College of Sentimental Swing! For lack of anything else, and just to be com• mercial, we shall call the band just that, but only for this column, so you'll catch the idea of it. Herein we present the activities of those -l who have.served with us in the past and have been given their diplomas. We don't list our post-graduates, o.ir alumni who have returned to Bandleader Endows carry on—Andy FerreKi. Dave Ja• cobs and D;*.vry Tough. First Chapter in So. cur Alr.mni: KI:K Trumpet — Sa::; Skohiiek, New York City Sieve Lipkin. Charlie Snivak. Serond Trumpet-— Si"!"!ins; B<^e, I?, ("irahain. Max Kainij.>!;y. -)m;mv Ail 0!'i'iii::tt!,n:! <:'; ec ;;<)!'.< ai:C Weld';. Bunny Bengali, "Pee Wee" writers for school i::-wM>;5p.':-s Erwm. h: ihi; .Me.: .;'>..k;;!; i.S'ci, o! New Third Tn:mr-ei — Chil WoKenm, York was : .<•<.'. bv a gro'i^ o:" Joe IJi'.iier. fi! i-y repress;;-live.-- ncen'Jy w::e:i Firvt Trombone — Joe Oriak>:; Dcnoi'o. oi Tommy :)i;r>ey. Second Trombone — Lefty Kail, The Scribes of .Sentimental Swing gather around their sponsor, Tommy Dorsey, who is endowing- this j Under the guidance of 'i'e.mmy Fen Pickering. Les Jenkins. oi£anidation. This shows a part of the group of fifty charter members at a meeting in the Hotel New j and his stall the club wiU endeavor Third Trombone — Moe Zudicoff, Yorker. As Tommy goes on tour he will organize chapters in various cities throughout the country for j to further the knowledge of modern Elarl Hagan. the furthering of musical knowledge among the youth of America. ' popular music in general. First Saxophone—Noni Beraardi, The first meeting, held Saturday, Mike Doty. December 17. was more or less of a Second Sax—Sid Stonebum, Tom• social nature, serving to let the my Macy. Joe Dixon. members get acquainted with each Third Sax — Johnny Van Epps, other and with Tommy, who is en• Sid Block. . dowing the organization. Close 10 Fourth Sax—Clyde Rounds. forty high schools in the Metro• Piano—Paul Mitchell, Dick Jones. politan area were represented, either Drums—Sam Weiss, Sam Rosen, by editors of the papers or members Maurice' Purtill. of the staffs, assigned to cover the Guitar—Max Cheikes, Bill Schaf- event. Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey. Staten Island, Brook• fer. lyn, the Bronx and Manhattan sent more secure, better fitted and have By LYLK VAN Bud Freeman, free lancing around delegates. the necessary poise that good an• HYMIE CONFESSES New York. Reports that he is re• Chief Announcer, Raleigh-Kool nouncing requires. The second meeting was held at turning to Tommy's band are un• Program. The next thing that I can (Continued from Page Three.) the Hotel New Yorker, Tuesday true. think of right, now is, you must afternoon, December 27. H. John The requirements of a network of six I wanted to be a steam loco• Charlie Spivak, one of the more know how to pronounce, and pro• recent grads of the band, doing Gluskin, attorney for Tommy and announcer in New York are-vastly motive engineer. nounce correctly, the names of all studio work around New York City. the band, conducted the meeting different today from what they Now, as I started to say at the the well-known operas and their , who played that until the election of officers and beginning, back in 1925, I started were, say, five composers, as well as composers trumpet solo on the record of supervised the drawing up of the doing the Catskill Route. Every or six years ago. and compositions of note. In other "Marie," among other things, play• rules, regulations and by-laws, all summer we (you might know some At that time if words, you must have a working ing his band on one-nighters around of which were made by majority of the other fellows—Red Hymie you had a pleas• knowledge of languages—French, the New York area. vote of the group. German, Italian and Spanish. Rosenbaum, Sammy Weiss, Joey ing voice, a good One of the first moves made was When I say a working knowledge, I Sara, Murray Schlamm) played and "Pee Wee" Erwin's wife, Roberta, the selection of a name for the or• )>ersonality and mean that you must be able to pro• played for the rocking chair crowd almost completely recovered from ganization. "Scribes of Sentimen• a good sales de• nounce readily foreign names on —and we really had fun. We play• bums she suffered In a household tal Swing" was suggested by one of livery, you had a sight, whether you speak the lan• ed what we wanted, when we want-' accident last fall. "Pee Wee" now playing with Raymond Scott. the group and unanimously adopted fair chance of guage or not. This necessitates at ed, and how we wanted. And did by the others. An insignia will ..be making the least a fundamental knowledge of we eat! And on the cuff! Dick Jones, pianist' with the original TD band, chief arranger for drawn up and from this member• grade, regardless the proper use of the phonetics of About that time (after I grad• the various languages. Glen Gray's Casa Loma crew. ship pins will be designed and given of your past ra• uated from school) I landed my the members. first non-musical job—a Bank Les Jenkins, back in New York dio experience. Another thing, don't think that Teller. (Why, yes, I was a banker :'rom a trip to his native Oklahoma As a precaution against becoming Today, you because your voice is not "smooth in my younger days. Didn't you City, now playing trombone in overcrowded, the members voted and mellow" that you wouldn't- be must not only have a fair knowl• know?) And even then I stuck right .Artie Shaw's band. that the club rolls should be limit• suited for announcing. Very often edge of languages, a good personal• close to my music. Every Saturday Clyde Rounds .has just left Bun• ed to two representatives of each a voice that is distinctive.and out• ity, a real selling voice, but also the night I played a wedding (withxme ny Berigan's band to stay in New active high school newspaper. The standing in other ways Is just as "gift of gab," and I mean by the of those hotcha pianists) or a lodge York City. invitation to join shall be to the desirable. editor of each paper and it shall be latter having at your instant com• dance or a (pahdon my blushes) bit Clarinetist Joe Dixon now with left to his choice whether to join mand pure, unadulterated "ad lib• Don't try to put on airs by try• of a symphony concert. And, you Fred Waring. ing to sound good. You'll fail. Be along with one of his assistants or itum." And it doesn't stop there. guessed it, I earned more that Sat• Tommy Macy tooting his saxo• natural when you- speak and suc• urday night than I did "telier-ing" phone with Abe Lyman's band. staff members, or pass the invita• You must have some good, practical tion along to two of his fellow cess will eventually be yours. A all week at the bank. So I told my Mike Doty, Joe Ortalondo and experience in announcing at some writers. good break, of course, is always bank boss to get lost and I was Johnny Van Epps all playing with smaller radio station. welcome by the best of 'em. officially set on the rocky "road of 's outfit. No person, once a member, will be Good luck. rhythm. made to forfeit his membership by So often we are asked, "How did Paul Mitchell is tickling the ivo• graduation. Upon the graduation you happen to get started in The road has its pleasant ups and ries in the house band at the Potential big-time radio an• of a member, however, an under• radio?" and most always the ma• its depressing downs. We all know Springfield, Mo., radio stations. nouncers can get more good tips graduate editor or writer will be jority of us who have been in the that. But, cigar butt in mouth, Sam Rosen beating out rhythm from Lyle in future "issues of added to the club. game for seven or eight years in• I've always managed to get along in Charlie Baum's society band. variably have to answer, "We just THE BANDSTAND. Just drop financially, have a heck of a good Temporary officers, selected at Maurice Purtill, just returned drifted in." And that's usually true, him a line with any questions you time and see plenty of scenery. I've the second meeting, are Marie Wil- from a trip, is giving drum lessons just drifted in without any premed• want answered. worked with all sorts of-outfits and • Jiams, of Yonkers, N. Y., president; to several pupils. itation or particular preparation. all kinds of leaders. I was strand• Lou Leopold, of the Bronx, first Maxie Kaminsky has temporarily ed in Texas ^during the National vice-president; John Hill, of Yon• In my own case, for example, a forsaken boats to swing out at the Bank holiday of 1933 without a kers, second vice-president; Norman knowledge of music and_ several PUBLICITY BIZ Onyx. nickel or a salami or a cigar in Greenberg, of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., years of vocal training led 'me into Sam Weiss drumming in the sight. I wore overalls and a farm• recording secretary, and Norman radio ten years ago down in At• NO RACKET house band at WNEW, New York. er's hat and picked nry teeth with Hoffman, of the Bronx, correspond• lanta, Georgia, singing on the air He recently sat in with Tommy's country straw to amuse the cus• ing secretary. just for the thrill of it. (Continued from Page Two.) band during the spell between Mau• I think that many of you who tomers In the Village County Fair rice Purtill's departure and Davey Other charter members of the should happen to read this little of prohibition days. Then came Tough's return. Tew York chapter of the Scribes of largely a -matter of dispensing news. one day when my ole Catskill dissertation and would like to make Steve Lipkin trumpeting for Les •ntimental Swing are Joan Alles, Things are always happening, and Mountain pals and I joined up with radio, in this particular field, your a publicity man is just a reporter Brown. ', Applcbaum, Bernard Bass, goal would like some good, practi• a bespectacled Chicago boy who .man..B!itz, Jean Blodstein, Ada with a perpetual assignment—in plays a hot clarinet, Benny Good- Red Bone has put aside his trom• cal advice as to a course of prep• ( nirles, Vincent Chirles, Jacqueline this case. Tommy Dorsey and his man. After a six-months' booking bone for a while and Is now doing aration. So, here goes, and I'll'take orchestra. In addition to being a free lance arranging. ouant, Helen Darck, Morris Dia- them as they come. ,' in New York City, we landed in Los ond, Joan Donegan, Marion Faber, reporter you have to be (1) a bio• Angeles at the Palomar and a bunch When last heard from, Frank Do- > Fischman, Millicent Gabowitz, First, don't attempt to make the grapher, because when a radio star of Western kfds gaped at us the way nalfo was with Ruby Newman. una Giaquinto, Kathleen Har- major networks unless you have becomes famous people immediately I used to gape at that pianist. And Ben Pickering sliding his. siide .ngton, Nathaniel Hausman, David had at least two years of experience want to know all about him (2) a so, Jitterbugs were born. with Ted Lewis' band. 'tewitt, John Hill, Gertrude Kaye, at a smaller station. You'll feel feature writer, to take the technical Earl Hagan, affectionately called After that it. was the Rockies for :thel Katz, Marcella Kower, Flor- aspects of orchestras and the radio "Junior" by the boys in the band, us. No more CatsfiilJs, real good . nee Lananbaum,. Claire Lautt, business and translate them into doing studio work in Hollywood. cigars and no more stogies. I've Alfce Levine, Betty Lightman, no way affect the activities of the stories for the radio public (3) a even been in the movies (ahem), in Noni Bernardi playing lead in Anita Lowy, Margaret Lupin, Irene New York group, which will carry diplomat, to answer letters from "Big Broadcast of 1937," and "Holly• 's band. Majewski, Cecelia Matelson, Walter on and conduct meetings as usual. people who don't like to hear a wood Hotel." In the latter I had Murphy, Augustine Nasta, Regina Tommy will meet the high school swing version of "When You and I some lines to say. I was so good Roth, Melvin Seeger, Irving Shad- editors and writers in the various Were Young, Maggie" (4) a fairly hat making a fellow break down they not only cut out my lines, len, David Slairu, Everett Smith, cities in which he plays vaudeville healthy individual, because in show and confess all this stuff! I'm just THEY TOOK OUT THE WHOLE Jr., carla SofXietto, Richard Spahn, at a time arranged prior to his ap• business tilings happen at night, but as surprised at all this "confession" SCENE. Alas! Alack! I've played Anne Villone, Marilyn Weinstock, pearance. Because of travel and have to be publicized in the day• talk, but confession, they say, is at Debutante parties just as I used Louis Wemstraub, Robert Wend- lack of time in one city, it will be time, with a resultant lack of sleep. good for the soul. And, oh yeah, to play at a Second avenue boys' linger, Benjamin Wetheimer and impossible to have meetings in as I started to say, my wife's hat is So next time you pick tip the pa• dance. a riot (looks like an old pretzel and Anne 2olty. cities in which he is playing one- per and sea Tommy's picture, or a nighters. Efforts will be made to Yep, and then the fourth time baked out of shape). And I still story about Edythe or Jack, or out at the coast, I saw another love music. To Expand, include these cities in the various Tommy's face on a magazine cover, Metropolitan groups. Where this is record-breaking crowd going crazy As.Tommy Dorsey and his band just remember that at least two, and Hymie, our first saxophonist, impractical, the New York head• about another bespectacled "Top" go on tour, other chapters of the maybe more, of Tommy's publicity will* help you with problems you quarters will set up a plan whereby man—and here I was swinging out Scribes of Sentimental Swing will men lost at least one night's sleep may have about your sax tooting these communities may organize with* the new best band. Great stuff be.formed in the cities in which getting it there. / —or your wife's hat—if you'll just chapters by some other means. —eh Tom?—and long may it last! they play. The band's tour will in Good night, now. Whew! Can you imagine his wife's write him a note re same. Page Ten- THE BANDSTAND January, 1939 Mast at Work! Top , Mastren

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"S3 Maestro Runs Away Carmen Scores Win Jack Holds the Lead 111111 Sip With All Honors Over Strummers To Win Over on First Horn in Close Race Bing: Crosby

It's nothing of a novelty for Without benefit'of dialects, Car• Jack Leonard's steady climb up Tommy Dorsey to win first place men Mastren swung into lead posi• the ladder of success was highlight• ed this month by his winning the among lead trombone players, so It tion and stayed there in the Metro• Metronome Magazine poll for the was little surprise when the final nome poll for the annual all-star most popular orchestra vocalist. / results of the Metronome poll were band of the nation. In previous years Jack has al• v announced and Tommy was on top Winning by a substantial margin. ways been in the running, but never £ again. Carmen captured 595 votes along quite for top honors. During l£i38, with his first-place spot^l54 over however, his popularity skyrocketed, Of course, the wide margin by his nearest threat, Ben Heller of not only among fans but in the which he led his runners-up is Benny Goodman's band. trade as well. The poll, incident• Here's Jack Leonard winning a A study of a guitar player mak• something to write home about. ally, is conducted primarily among few hundred more votes as the ing rhythm. Subject of the study It is nothing new for Carmen to Tommy ran up 1,444 votes, while his musicians. nation's top band- vocalist. is Carmen Mastren. nearest competitor. , win polls among leading guitar had only 11. Out of fairness to players of the country, particularly When asked about beating so Jack, it is only right that we point in the swing division. He's been up prominent a singer as Bing Crosby in the running since he first came out that this was in the race for fqr first position. Jack alibis that DORSEY ORCHESTRA into prominence -when he used to "Bing isn't really a vocalist. He's first trombone. Teagarden won play with 's small a star. Most people just consider first place on second, or hot, trom• TAKING ROAD TOUR combo on West 52d street. Since fellows who sing, with bands when (Continued From Page One.) bone with 868 votes. ' he's joined Tommy's band he's been they vote. Ye gods, if Bing were over each other's shoulders and (Continued From Page .One.) Tommy got off to an early start a consistent winner in the polls of singing with a band, or if the clas• warble a gentle "Sweet Adeline?" in the contest, gained himself a the various magazines. sification called for all singers, with Remember the days of the bus In Indianapolis; north to Detroit substantial lead,;and made it even Metronome called it an easy win or without dance band affiliations, rides? Everybody in the car was and the Fox Theatre and a series more substantial as the poll pro• for Tommy's strummer. The mag• none of us would stand a ghost of either a Crcsby or Boswell, and no• of one-nighters through the Middle azine also pointed out, in mention• a chance against him." gressed. In reporting the results body was going to tell anyone West. ing the final results, that the guitar of the poll, Metronome sta'es: "As There are a few hundred people differently.' As a matter of fact :t division was a classic example of Paramount Again j was to be expected, Tommy Dorsey who still think Jack can outsing often sounded pretty darned good. won first (lead) trombone honors, what name band connections will anyone. These are the members of At a date in April to be decided | A fellow doesn't have to take vo• (hough his margin of victory is al• do. Carmen being with T. Dorsey, the Jack Leonard Fan Clubs, organ• by Tommy and Paramount Manager ' cal lessons to be the best crooner in most unbelievable. Such a runaway Heller with Goodman; third posi• ized by high school and college stu• Bob 'Weitman shortly, the band; a ballroom when he's dancing with needs no further elaboration." tion man, Nappy La Mare, with Bob dents—mostly girls, 'tis true — moves into its second home, the j his girl. Sometimes the crooning is Crosby's band, and Al Avola of Ar• throughout the country. They Paramount Theatre in New York! And so we abide by Meu-onomc's a little harsh, particularly in that tie Shaw's crew getting fourth write him regularly, save clippings City. It was at this theatre • that! decision. It heeds no further elab• husky whisper that is affected for place. in which he figures, and just about the T. D. band, playing Us third j oration. this type of singing, but there isn't Most amusing angle of this divi• swooned out of the picture when engagement in less than a year last! it is interesting to note that a soul to tell him he isn't as good sion was the tie between Allen Walter -Winchell printed the item! Bobby Byrn, a discovery of Tom• as any voice in the band that's play• fall, established an atl-time high ] Reuss and George Van Epps. Allen, that Jack would wed Adelaide Mof- j my's, placed fifth in the contest. ing his favorite song. Nobody but attendance record and was held over j points out the Metronome write-up, fett. Jack had writer's cramp for i Bobby, now playing lead trombone the girl, for she's the only one who the four weeks. Bob would gladly ] is a pupil of George's! a week writing explanations to his j in 's band, was dis• hears him. And the girls, bless 'em, have kept the show a few weeks j correspondents that Walter had j covered by Tommy when the broth• Carmen's newest ambition is to just bear the brunt of the whole longer, but the boys were on the I capture the title of "Outstanding made a "slight overstatement." verge of collapse as it was, what! ers were together with tiieir own thing and endure it. Women were band four years ago. The band Substitute Bandleader." During Jack has already had opportuni- • born to suffer. with doubling between the hotel and ! the past year Carmen has been tak• was playing in Detroit. Tommy ties to go "on his own," but has held theatre and doing the commercial j ing charge of the Dorsey band I can't name the number of times heard Bobby play, brought him back, feeling he isn't quite rcsvdy broadcasts besides. i when Tommy has had to leave the fellows and girls, sometimes a little East to Glen Island Casino and for the big step as yet. A leading Following the Paramount appear- i stand,»and also been conducting for too happy from giggle water, have eventually turned over his parts to radio sponsor wanted Jack last ance Tommy and the band will open j the iloor shows in spots like the spring for his own program i.nd tried to force their way onto the at the Hotel Pennsylvania Roof for \ him. when he left to -form his own Palomar and Hotel New Yorker. If bandstand to do a vocal. Usually band. several motion picture companies the summer season. The actual! you think he doesn't enjoy this wanted to take options on his ser• the top bands are well protected Tommy also garnered himself opening date will be announced [ arm-waving exercise, just get a load vices for pictures and give him against such invasions and so spare 180 votes in the hot trombone di• shortly. \ of him in his glory in front of the screen tests. "Maybe in a year or the audience without insulting the vision, finishing in third place. band some night. Toscanini, watch two, but not right now," Jack an• potential idol of the airwaves. But Glenn Miller finished second with out! Mastren is on the way! swers—and that's that. sometimes the person is allowed to RADIO TECHNICIANS 248. go on. Well, who am I to criticize I>eople who sing into microphones 'MAKE' RADIO SHOWS on bandstands. MINCE. MINCES STULCE RECALLS You learn to like singing in the (Continued from Page Two.) cradle, when mother sings you a (Continued from Page Three.) (Continued from Page Three.) lullaby, and as you grow up you live the harmonic and rhythmic design constantly in a world of music. If in the background at a level which habit of playing with my eyes you can learn the lyrics as fast as closed. We got our signals mixed were fine, for I wound up with a will enhance the solo without de• little spot over in a corner, fairly the songs come out you will un• plenty, for many times I'd play tracting from it. At all times it is near the bandstand. doubtedly someday be recognized as chorus after chorus and not real• important to get the right amount So, there I sat from seven p.m. the life of the party. Whether that ize I was wrong until something of the rhythm section—not too until 3:30 a.m., mouth open some• is the reason for such an interest in opened my eyes. much or too little—and this varies times in awe and the" rest of >;he learning the words to songs, or somewhat, naturally, according to My first job away from home was time waiting for another bite of whether it is because people like to the style of arrangement. The same with in Tulsa, Okla• watermelon. Lombardo was best do it for their own amusement, I thing applies to vocal accompani• homa. It was a wonderful band and watermelon second only to him. probably never shall know. But I ment. and I was really happy. It was I thought. Not only did I get do know that lyric learning is tak• with that band I met the people en just as'seriously by the onlooker The "committee" listens for all eight-and-a-half hours of Lombar• who rapidly became and still are as by we who have to learn them these points in rehearsal, and we do music, but also an autograph and my best friends. We were all so if we are to earn our keep. discuss them with Tommy as each a ten-minute talk with Guy, all in young and enthusiastic, we sort of addition to the piece of Texas water• number is rehearsed. When every• So, it makes no difference "grew up" together. I think the melon for dessert. I felt so won• thing is rehearsed, including an• whether a fellow can carry a tune mere mention of Joe's name to any derful at closing time that I left nouncements and dialogue, there is or not, at the proper time and in musician who ever worked for him the waiter the huge sum of thirty- a complete "dress" rehearsal of the the proper place, to his own mind will bring yon a wholesome smile. five cents for his eight-and-a-half entire program. During the dress, he is the best singer in the world, What makes Joe such a definite hours' service. At that, I thought I we make notes on all the above though he be undiscovered. And if character are his more outstand• was leaving a good sum. points, review them afterward with everyone is a good singer to his way ing experiences as a bandleader, Tommy, and make any necesssary So excited was I after all this of thinking, there is certainly some happy, some harrowing, some that instead of going home to ted, adjustments. nothing I can tell him to make him good and some bad. I packed my things and left for any happier. ' This all probably sounds very One,little incident occurred when While Gene Traxler takes a Texas immediately. I couldn't sleep technical and serious. Well, it is we were on the road. We went to picture of somebody taking a pic• that night, anyway. Luckily I'd serious in that it is important that been given my train and meal made of staunch stuff, even if I Rolla, Missouri, but none of us ture of him, Arranger Paul Wet- the material go out on the air in tickets in advance, for my bank• do say so myself. knew where we were to play. Some• stein, Guitarist Carmen Mastren the right way, but it's not so seri• roll at that stage totaled thirty-five one finally asked a policeman and and Arranger "Axel" Stordahl re• ous that there's no fun in re• cents. Freddie has graduated lie directed us to the local theatre. cover from a day in the fresh air. hearsals. There, are always some That scared all of us since we'd This was a few years ago, but listener to performer in tlv tcrvening years since" his laughs. And there's one thing we never played on a stage before. We you'll" never find me laughing over cago escapade, and a right ' can always look forward to at the' prepared for the show, however, anyone taking a long hop to hear entcd performer he is too. end of the dress rehearsal. At the and were all ready to go on when it Trumpeter Ferretti a band do a one-nighter. Every fills a chair in the woodwind : point where Tommy plays "Getting was noticed Joe was mussing. It time some fellow comes up to the Sentimental" at the end of the Guested oh Returnbandstan d and says he's a musician tion of the baud and will seems he'd come to the theatre give any tips you desire o' program, he always plays something later than the rest of us and the or another fan who's travelled a Tho Onyx Club, New York's great distance to hear the music, I clarinet and flute else in the dress rehearsal—and we doorman wouldn't believe he was Cradle of Swing, played host to think of myself and that three-day Freddie is also an arrange can never tell what it's going to be. the leader because the band was al• Tommy Dorsey and the members of stopover in Chicago to listen to rie" being one of his outsi If we guess, we're sure to be wrong. ready on the stage, ready to start his band at a party Nov. 5, hon• Guy Lombardo. Music fans are works in this field. And it's not so much what is playing. So Joe had to go around oring Andy Ferretti, in celebration played as how it is played—and the to the box office, buy a ticket and of his return to the orchestra that members of the band are never go through, the front of the house night. backward about joining in and and then had to argue his way Andy, first trumpet player in the making it a real clambake. through a staff of managers, ush• Dorsey band for more than two Of course, the program has to be ers and stagehands to get from the years, decided to settle down in timed, since we have exactly 29 front to the back of the house. Hollywood while the orchestra was minutes and 30 seconds on the air. Well, I started writing about playing at the Palomar last sum• It usually runs pretty much as ex• mer. Three months away from his anything, wound up writing about If you are interested in music, why not drop Torm- pected, but we are always prepared something and still told how I favorite orchestra proved a little with optional cuts. When Tommy picked up the clarinet, started play• too much for Andy, so he hoisted Dorsey a line and tell him you'd like to receive 17 appears to be cutting off his head, ing it and even managed to squeeze the lonesome signal and returned BANDSTAND every month. If you act immediately, . pronto. using his hand as an axe and wear• in an experience or two. No kid• may obtain a subscription for the year 1939, gratis! ing a quizzical look, he simply ding, I didn't think I could do it. means "Shall we make the cut?" If Pottstown, Pa.» Sunnybrook Ball• Write Tommy Dorsey, 521 Fifth Avenue, New Y' •we answer by pointing to our noses, Send your questions on clarinet room, Saturday, February 4. City. >..: we mean "Don't make any cut— playing to Johnny. He'll answer Waterbury, Conn., Sunday, Feb• we're on the nose." them in his next column. ruary 5. Sheets Illustrates snow. Tommy Dorsey wasn't a big (Continued From Page One.) worked with .various touring dance name and, couldn't very well com• 9 orchestras and radio studio bands mand any top money. icians Struggle Tommy saw service under Red of'a trombone. The answer is evi• A break-in at New York's French Nichols, Vincent Lopez, Rudy Vallee, dent, v And from that day on Tom• Casino helped iron out the wrinkles Lennie Hayton, Andre Kostelanetz," my has been sliding a trombone. in organizing a new band. Then (Continued from Page Three.) Gene Goldkette, , Tommy put through a long distance Tommy gave the horn a lot of at• Tommy took the boys on a tour Eddie Elkins and with the Califor• my reproached us in no uncertain call to Butte. The operator there tention just as, in due time, the through, the south and into Florida nia Ramblers. terms for not having said anything informed us that Jerry had gone to horn^gave him a lot of attention. for a few weeks. Slowly, very slow• sooner and handed us each a twen• Denver and he was located there. He played and - practiced ' every During the latter part of this ly but surely the band was catch• ; ty-dollar bill. That was a fine ges• Believe me, it was quite a thrill for chance he had. Not that ;it was period a band known as ,the Dorsey ing on. The climb was a tough one us to.talk with him over the phone. compulsory, just because his father Brothers Orchestra would appear on and nobody knew it better than T. ture on his part and for that we admired him all the more. In fact, Tommy told him to hop the next was -a music instructor. He really phonograph records now and then, Dorsey, so over-anxious to reach the train for New York and it was only I haven't forgotten it to this day. enjoyed playing the instrument. usually accompanying a popular top just to prove how wrong were a few days before Jerrey was with Tommy did a lot for us kids and That, more than anything, else, is featured vocalist, occasionally turn• the skeptics who told him he was the band. probably the outstanding factor in ing 'out an instrumental swing clas• foolish for making his move. / we've always been grateful to him his success story. sic. The band would be composed for it. However, the job of playing first Returning to New York he opened chair and hot trumpet proved a lit• To Tommy nothing was more im• of Tommy and Jjimmy' and from at the- Hotel Lincoln. While he When we started our one-nighters tle too much for Jerry's lip so he portant than the" trombone. -That's' seven to eleven other top ranking didn't set the town on fire, he did we made our first jump to Phila• had to leave. Tommy fixed him up set some new records for the hotel delphia with a handicap from the with Benny Goodman, who was and began getting a foothold on outset. Bunny Berigan, who was the younger set, which liked his our first and only trumpet player, then starting his own band to. open different, clean-cut style of swing. had a radio program in New York at Billy Rose's Music Hall. He was succeeded in our- band by George As the spring rolled around once that night and couldn't get to Philiy until eleven o'clock. Tommy had Throw, then with ' again, Texas beckoned. It was band. while he was out there; playing at to double on trombone and trumpet. Six weeks of one-nighters broke the Exposition in Fort Worth, that Don, Roc and I were probably more the band in right, then we went into Tommy received his first national excited about Bunny's absence than break. Fred Waring was taking a Tommy himself, but our enthusiasm the Sands Point Bath Club on Long two-weeks' vacation from the Ford over realizing a life's ambition of Island. To us that was the job of program, then one of the biggest working with the Dorseys was too jobs. We had dinner served us at shows on the radio charts. Tommy much to bring us down enough to six-thirty, went to work at seven- was selected to substitute. matter. The first ten rows in front thirty and played whenever we felt That substitution paved the way of the bandstand were jammed with like it. At eleven we were served for one of Tommy's biggest stepping musicians and in between sets they sandwiches and coffee after which stones—the Raleigh-Kool commer• would comer us and ask questions. we'd play a set or two and go home. cial program. He'd come back to And, of all things, the questions In the,mornings we'd go to the club New York and was doing a little bit they'd ask would be the same ones and play s-oftball on the beach with alright at the Hotel Commodore I'd been asking musicians in bands the lifeguards. when he was offered the cigarette that had come through Denver. To We did a lot of rehearsing that program, playing the background be truthful about the whole thing, Summer and Tommy developed a and accompanying music for Jack I probably didn't know any more sweet band that, in my humble Pearl and his crew and Morton about the answers than the fellows opinion, had one of the best tonal Bowe. asking the questions; but it was a qualities of that time. Our shad• The breaks for which he'd work• great thrill.^ I don't think a lesser ings and dynamics were fine. We ed so hard were finally beginning person than a newly inaugurated took great pride in the arrange• ments made for us by Glenn Miller, to come for Tommy. On the heels president could have felt so impor• of his commercial contract, even Bernie Mayers, Joe Glover,' Arthur tant. Not that we were cocky; we though he was Just in the back• Schutt and Bob Van'Eps. did- try to give our sincerest opin• ground, came a pair % of arrange• One of the most exciting nights ions. ments which were about to pivot of that summer developed from one Tommy with his family—Daughter Patsy, Son Thomas, 3d, better the, band into the national promi• Our next date was at Amherst of those quiet Mondays. It is on known as "Skipper," and Mrs. Dorsey. nence. University. The Casa Loma Orches• those "quiet Mondays" that the One was a novelty glee club effect tra, number one band of the time boys drop their cards and run to why he gave up books and class- j musicians from the studios. Some• of an old tune called "Marie." and the "rage" of the campus, had play "Dinah" whenever they hear a rooms after his high school days I times it would turn- out to be noth• Some people remembered the song, been booked. for the prom in the car approaching — and that's all. and started trouping around Penn-; ing more than jam sessions—epic but it wasn't considered. the song large gym, but because tickets for Well, we hadn't heard a car all eve• sylvania with Brother James. '• making jam sessions — then again to be so sensational on being re• more than capacity had been sold, ning and the cards were getting The first band was a flop. Their the boys might get serious and turn vived. The novel touch given it by our band was hired to accommo• bent out of shape so. after inter• father told them they weren't ready. out some of the finest blending ever Tommy's arrangers made it good date the overflow in a smaller gym. mission, for lack of anything else put on wax. for the road, but the brothers • listening for the boys, so Tommy Casa Loma took the honors that io do, someone dared .Tack Stacey thought they knew better and so j Because of the attention given the thought it might click with some of night, along with most of the crowd. tx> dive off the high dive into the started out at the helm of their j band through its work on records, the dancers too. The other ar• We- weren't very well known and pool, clothes and all. Jokingly, own organization. They called j the brothers were persuaded by rangement, made that same week, Jack offered to do it for ten dol• even those who came to our dance themselves "The Dorsey Brothers'! friends to form their own orchestra was labeled "sacrilege" by some of lars. Imagine his surprise when out of curiosity weren't sure whether Novelty Band." It is doubtful if, for dance engagements. So, in the Tommy's long haired friends when the . boys took up a collection, or not they liked the music. Natur• anyone, even old-time swingsters of; spring of 1934, we find Tommy and they first heard it. But it was banded him the ten dollars and ally, we thought we had the best the Shenandoah Valley, will remem- ; Jimmy with their own band at the Toinmy's pet, the first arrangement told him to "go to it." Stacey has ber the band, for.it didn't last long! Sands Point Beach Club, one or the on which he himself had ever band anyway. always been sort of a hero in my enough to warrant attention. i more fashionable; spots on Long Is• worked, featured, his pet lick In the Bunny Berigan had decided he estimation, ever since that night. The next time the boys left home | land. Tommy directed the band, introduction and so he was de• was taking too much risk in giving Of course, he paused on the edge it was with an established band, not which Consisted of three trombones, termined to take a fling at putting up his radio commercials, so Char• of that high dive for an awful long "on their own." The father was one trumpet, three saxes and four a classical composition to swing lie Teagarden had been with us time, but he had what it takes. right, for the additional stay at rhythm. Bob Crosby and Kay rhythm. Thus Rimsky Korsikoff's for the Amherst date. He played fine, Either because he needed the ten home following their venture proved Weber were the vocalists. "Song of India" was turned over to too, but of course he was under spot or because he couldn't stand profitable in more ways than one. The band was a mild success that the shag artists, later to be identi• contract to Whiteman, so we had the names we were calling bim, he Their playing improved, they had summer, then created a real stir fied as "jitterbugs." to look for another trumpet player. finally held his nose and leaped in. more time for practice and by being when it went into the Riviera on Eli Oberstein, production chief During rehearsal the following I could go on relating incidents there they received .their first big the Palisades of the Hudson and, for Victor Records, heard Tommy week, Tommy discussed the prob• like this indefinitely, - but :space is berak—an offer to join the Scran- when colder weather set in, BroabV do the' numbers and went crazy lem of getting a good all-around limited and so are readers' patience, ton Sirens. way's Palais Royal night club, since about them. Need we1 go into de• trumpeter for the band and we so I think it would be much wiser The Scranton Sirens may sound reconditioned into the present Cot• tails? Tommy rushed down and - suggested Jerry Neary, whom we to end this here and continue at like a corny title today, but in those ton Club. Their records were the made two more sides and Victor put thought was, playing in Butte, Mon• some later date. days it was one of the best Dixie• talk of the music industry and even OUT; the record that was to become land combinations ever to tour the i today they are treasured by musi• its biggest1 seller of all time—"Song tana. Glenn had heard Jerry" some Eastern States. It was this band cians and fans alike. of India" and "Marie" by Tommy years before, liked him, and so that took both Tommy and Jimmy j After a road tour the band opened Dorsey and his orchestra. Even to• STARS EXPOSED Dorsey from their home town in j at the Glen Island Casino in New day this record Is listed among the Pennsylvania to bridge the gap to I Rochelle, directly in the wake of company's current best sellers, his friend. He prefers associating big-time music for them, ] the Casa Lorna-' band's two-season though it was waxed two years ago. with plain, ordinary, everyday peo• AS SWING CATS The brothers split after leaving stay there. The collegians went for The rest of our^story is more re• ple like the fellows you and I know,- the Sirens, going separate ways. the band in a big way and success cent and probably quite familiar to In the hills of New Jersey he has seemed assured. a huge estate, usually referred to Now and - then they'd find them- ] you. Business boomed at the It is amusing, if not amazing, the Commodore. In the summer In fan magazines as a "farm," on number of cinema stars in Holly• Jack Pearl and company and which, he has a twenty-eight room Morton Bowe left the Raleigh-Kool house and the recently added fix• wood who are confirmed swing mu• program, giving Tommy the en• tures that make it one of the show sic addicts. Though most of them tire half-hour show for himself. places of the East, sixty-five foot confine their musical activities to He was booked into New York's swimming pool, tennis courts, bad• off-screen moments, there are many Hotel Pennsylvania to set a new minton and handball courts, bar- of them who, in their own quiet string of records for the beautiful beque ovens, a playroom the size way, take their music quite seri• roof garden. The weather was un• of a night club and plenty of bars, ously. These facts were brought usually 'not, but it was a pleasure though - he never touches liquor to perspire that siunmer. himself. to light last summer when Tommy Things continued to break favor• . It can't very well be said that he Dorsey held an "amateur" swing ably for . the Tommy Dorsey band leads a quiet home life, because »he contest on his Raleigh-Kool pro• in the fall as it returned to the seldom gets home. His work- gram from Hollywood. Commodore, opening before the seven nights a week and Saturday * The competitors on the show were • biggest crowd in the history of the luncheons, in: addition: to record Bing Crosby, who takes his hide hotel, and enjoying a continuation and radio commitments^—keeps him wacking: (drumming), in no matter-, orr the commercial program. well "on the go" ln'New York' City. bf-fact light; Dick Powell, a former And so they've kept climbing for Every chance he gets;; however;, he professional saxophonist, who tac-. the past year. Last summer Tom• drives down to Bernardsville (that's my took his boys into brand new the town In which his palace Is lo• kled the trumpet on the program;" ;ie Dorsey Brothers' Novelty Band. This was the first band ever territory, Hollywood, there to gain cated) and spends the day playing Jack Benny, bending his bow over by the boys. Left to right, Jimmy Crosson, Tommy, Cliff Zugg, a whole new legion of friends and with miniature trains or an erector a violin'in something a lot peppier followers who have remained true Jimmy, Donald Xyer. set, or just loafing around in some than "The Bee"; Shirley Ross, who to them even to this day. All old clothes, perhaps playing a little plays a fine load of piano, and. Ken ogether in a dance orchestra It is no secret that Tommy and across the country ballroom records football, tennis, ping pong, or, if were shattered as the band played Murray, tooting a little legitimate i band, but lov the most pavt Jimmy had different ideas on how it's not too cold, taking a quick one the leading dance palaces. And all and a little swing clarinet. rked separately, songs should be played. They still in the pool. of this climaxed by a fifty-two week In his hunt for musicaV talent oands with which Tommy have, as you will notice in listening He shares his home with his fam• renewal on the Raleigh-Kool pro• among the stars, it was also dis• vj-read like a Who's Who in to the two orchestras. That dif• ily—Mrs. Dorsey, a non-profes• gram and the most colorful'open• covered that Fred Astaire plays fine ,>rld of -Music. Like most of ference of opinion was climaxed at sional Detroit girl; Daughter Patsy ing night In the annals of the Hotel swing piano; Jack Oakie, clarinet; "''Jop men, Tommy put in his the end of the Glen Island engage• and Son Thomas 3d, better known New Yorker's'Terrace Room, not to Lew Ayres, piano and banjo; Gin• *Vih the King of Jazz, Paul ment, with Tommy starting his own as "Skipper." A visitor will also mention the orowded nights that ger Rogers, Rosemary Lane and •h'ian. T. D. and P..W. are orchestra. find a houseful of guests. Including have followed. Cary Grant, piano; Andy Devine, Close . friends today, but in those a smattering of society people, The boys were now going separate tuba; Bob Hope, saxophone; Jimmy * just a little different, and ways again, and here, In the fail of But through all this Tommy Dor• musicians, writers, newspaper peo• Cagney, guitar; Marjorie Weaver, ; i of Shenandoah lasted a 1936, we see the organization of sey remains just plain Tommy ple, bandleaders, picture people, violin; Charles Butterworth, Jackie i.,en months as a trombone Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra. The Dorsey. You don't have to be a collegians and, as we mentioned be• mere Cooper, Jackie Coogan, Mickey slider in the nation's leading band, sledding was mighty tough in those big-money man or a luminary of fore, just plain ordinary people Rooney and Mae West, the drums. In the ten years in which he days, even when there wasn't any the theatrical or radio world to be like you and me. Page Twelve THE BANDSTAND January, 1939

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-V complete list of records 25663—"In the S»li I. of the Night" 'i ' *• v"-.^,. Kv Trtmmv' and "Who Knows?" For two years people have been :asking us for the words of pat-- ade iur \ ictor by lommy :236S6_«0ncc in a While" and "U iua«e u>r wcwr »v :2g6S6__«0ncc in a While" and "If ter background sung by Tommy Dorsey's orchestra while Jack Dorsey and his orchcslra: ; u> the Last Thing I Do." s mm Leonard is singing the straight chorus of" "Marie." Well, to put a 25144—'"Take Mc Back to My Boots 25692—"Moanin' in the Mornin'" iiiiiiiiiiiiii lot of minds at rest, here Mis. just as our sixteen tried and true and Saddle" and "On Treas- « own With Love." and D •

251IH—"Alone" and "Two Hearts , tan Dream, Can't I?" Carved o:\ a Lonesome Pmc." ; 25750—"just a Simple Melody" and 25206—"Weary" and "Pagan Star." ; "Little White Lies."

25214—"Love Will Live On" and j :J5763_.1Thc BJg Dipuer" and "Then I Shan't Love You; "Smoke From a Chimney." Any More." ( 25766—"Just Let Me Look at You" '£52Ifi• -"I'm Shooii'-if nish" and and "You Couldn't Be Cuter." "Lovely Lady." ! 25767--"Beale Street Blues" and 25217- -"I Picked a Flower the Color j "Stop, Look and Listen." of Your Eyes" and "Please 12577^ -"More Than Ever" and "An- Believe Me." . nic Laurie." Marjorie Weaver, scintillating Metronome Tommy rates his picture in Down• 23336—"I'm Gettin* Sentimental Over 2578O—"Oh, Promise Me" and Twentieth Century - Fox star, ( The annual Metronome poll for beat three times, with Football You" and "I've Got a Note.'j j "Shine On, Harvest Moon." boasts a phonograph record col• top musicians on the various instru• Hero Ward Cuff, with Tennis Star 25246—"A Rendezvous in Honolulu" j 25795—"Bewildered" and "Jezebel." lection composed exclusively of ments was concluded in the current Don Budge and by himself, figur• and "That Lovely Night in 35799—-n can You Forge't?" and ow Tommy Dorsey records. January issue. Final results showed ing out a game called Time Tinker. Budapest." "There's a Boy in Harlem." the winners to be Jimmy Dorsey, 25256—"Gotta Go to Work Again" 25803—"Good Night, Sweet Dreams, Variety and "Every Minute of the first sax; Eddie Miller, tenor sax; Good Night" and "Moonlight Getting the undivided attention of Hour." Benny Goodman, clarinet; Chu on the Purple Sage." MII)=WEST OPERATORS all the bandleaders at present is the £5281—"You Started Me Dreaming" ; 25815—"Yearning" and "Deed X Do." Berry, fourth sax; Harry Janes, first trumpet; Bunny Berigan, sec• series being written for Variety by and "Robins and Roses." 25813—"Comin" Thru the Rye" and CONVENE AT CHICAGO ond trumpet; Sonny Dunham, third representatives of the nation's lead• 25291— "You" and "You Never "I Never Knew." ing universities. Each gives an un• Looked So Beautiful." 25824—"What'U I Do?" and "Oh, Coin machine operators of the trumpet; Tom my Dorsey, first trombone; Jack Teagarden, second biased viewpoint on how the various 25292— "It's You I'm Talking About" How I Hate to Get Up in the greater mid-western, section of the orchestras and musical styles rate trombone; Teddy Wilson, piano; and "Will I Ever Know?" Morning." United States will hold a four-days' at his or her college. None pull any Carmen Mastren, guitar; Bob Hag- 25320—"Stardust." 25828—"You Leave Me Breathless" convention in Chicago, January 16 punches, and it's all worthwhile gart, bass; Gene Krupa, drums; 25326—"Royal Garden Blues" and and "Says My Heart." through 19. reading matter for anyone interest• "Jada." 25832—I'll Dream Tonight" and Jack Leonard, male vocalist, and ed in dance bands. We can't, very The highlight of the meeting will Ella Fitzgerald, female vocalist. 25335—"Where Is My Heart" and "Cowboy From Brooklyn." be the annual banquet on-Thurs• well mention the standings of the 25848—"I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You." Other T. Dorsey musicians to finish "Long Ago and Tar Away." day, the last night of the. session. various bands here, since they 25856—"Now It Can Be Told" and in honorable mention are Johnny 25341— "Mary Had a Little Lamb" Several thousand people have al• aren't rated that way. However, we "My Walking Stick.' Mince, third only, to Goodman and and "Did I Remember?" ready made reservations to attend, can say from • our observations in 25319—"On the Beach at Bali Bali" j 25S66—"Music, Maestro, Please" and Artie Shaw on clarinet; and Yank reading the articles to date that the among them b?tween two and three and "No Regrets." "AH Through the Night/ Lawson, second to Bunny Berigan boys and. girls aren't quite as wild thousand coin machine operators 25352—"San Francisco" and "You've 25879—"This Time It's Real." on hot trumpet. Tommy and Good• in their enthusiasm for swing as from various parts of the country, Gotta Eat Your Spinach, 25887—"Barcarolle" and "Canadian man were the only two bandleaders they were. Judging from what's Baby." Capers." along with the leading phonograph to have three representatives among been written, they do like their 25333—"That's a Plenty." 26012—"I'll See You in My Dreams" manufacturers and distributors. the firsts—themselves and two oth• swing, but not in overdoses, nor hi 25146—"For Sentimental Reasons" and "Stop Beatin' 'Round the ers of their respective bands. In too wild a state of frenzy. Subtle and "Another Perfect, Night Mulberry Bush." another section of the magazine, swing seems to best describe what Is Ended." 2C016—"The Sweetheart of Sigma George Simon reviews Tommy Dor• the collegians go for today. Sweet . 25147—"A High Hat, a Piccolo, a Chi" and "Copenhagen." sey's band in a full-page anicle, music still rates right up there, and Cane" and "Close To Me." 26030—"Ya Got Me" and "There's rating it with a high "A." Tommy's bands that have excelled in that 25467—"After You're Gone." No Place Like Your Arms." new vocal discoveries, the Pied Pip• style for years now, and seen some 25174—"That Foolish Feeling and i 26054— "Boogie Woogie" and "Weary ERE AND THI ers, are given picture space. style sensations come and go, still 'Where Are You?" Blues." get votes from the' younger set. All 25176—"I'm in a Dancing Mood" and { 26062-^-"Rainb©w 'Round the Moon" in all, however, it looks like a pretty, "Tea on the Terrace." and "Stompin' at the Sta- (Continued From Page One.) Orchestra World fair consensus that a good mixture 25482—"There's Frost on the Moon" dium." And still another poll, -this one of both sweet and swing, without and "Keepin' Out of Mischief 26072—"Carolina Moon." "Orchestra W 0 r-1 d Achievement getting too slushy on the former' she wed one of Now.", 26085T-"L)ghtly and ' Politely" and Awards." Tommy Dorsey won in nor too wild on the latter, is the the members of 254S7—"May I Have the Next Ro• "Washboard Blues." the "Orchestra Leader" division, with current college preference in music!' the outfit, un• mance With You?" and 26097—"Room With a View" and Benny Goodman second and Larry Correct us if we've made any mis• derstudying "Head Over Heels in Love." "Down Home Rag." Clinton third. Winners in the 'Or• take. Ethel Merman 25496—"Jamboree" and "Maple Leaf 26105—"Sweet Sue, Just You" and chestra Musician" division are Harry for her new Rag." "Tin Roof Blues." James, Jack Teagarden and Benny Billboard - 26115—"Angels With Dirty Faces" Broadway nmsi- Goodman, and among the "Orches• 25508—"If My Heart Could Only Latest issue of Billboard has cov• Talk" and "The Goona Goo." and "Between a Kiss and a cal. tra Vocalists," Dolly Dawn, Martha er photo of V-lc Hyde, billed as the .25509—"Mr. Ghost Goes to Town" Sigh." Larry Funk Til ton and Ella Fitzgerald lead at "One-Man Swing Band." Headline and "Lookin' Around Corners 26126—"Midnight on the Trail" and came back into the finish line. A reason must be the New York story tells of Broadway business, for You." t "Hawaiian War Chant." given for each selection made by reporting the holiday just past was 25513—"On a Little Bamboo Bridge" picture to play the voter. Headlines and headline the best for the Gay White Way and "How Could You?" two weeks at stories reveal that CBS has bought Records by Tommy Dorsey since 1929. Williamsport, Pa., is the 25516—"Dedicated to You" and Egan the Village Barn Brunswick; that Florida is hoping and Iris Clambake Seven: center of the weekly radio survey. "You're Here, You're There." ... From the for a wide open '39 season - (who 25201—"The Music Goes Round and Leading programs are NBC Sym• 25519—"Melody in F" and "Who'll Rainbow Room, Al Donahue goes isn't?), and that cellars are at a Around" and "Rhythm in My phony, Chase and Sa'nborn pro• Buy My Violets?" '• to Palm Island, Fla Benny Good• •premium on 52d street. Tommy's Nursery Rhymes." gram, Hit Parade, Guy Lombardo, 25532—"Song of India" and "Marie." man goes on tour following his N. picture graces the cover and on 25220- •<'Onc Night in Monte Carlo" Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Easy 25532—"Sweet Is the Word for You" Y. Paramount engagement.. .Larry Page 4 you'll find a story about the and "The Day I Let You Get Clinton doing.' one-nighters and Aces, Lum and Abner, Walter Win- and "In a Little Hula band and its leader's personal his• Away." theatres. .--. playing chell and Lowell Thomas. This Bill• Heaven." tory. Musicians' wives will .either 25314- "Rhythm Saved the World" month of January at Nicollet Hotel board survey, which takes in a dif• 25534—"Thanks for Everything" and storm Jess Carlin's office or get a "I'll Dream My Way to and "At the Codfish Ball." in Minneapolis.. .Eddy Duehin leav• ferent locality each week, is prob• big kick out of the story by Life Heaven." 25568—"Twilight in Turkey" and ing Nyork's Plaza Hotel latter part ably one of the most complete and McKelvy, "Wives Who Run Bands." 25539—"Mendelssohn's Spring Song" "The Milkmen's Matinee." of this month. ..Wayne (King into accurate in radio circles. The re• The four-page picture spread shows, and "Liebcstraum." 25577—"Alibi Baby" and "He's a Drake Hotel, Chicago, after which viewing stand casts critical eyes among other things, Al Donahue 25511—"I've Got Beginner's Luck" Gypsy From Poughkecpsie." to New York's Hotel Astor.. .Eddie and words upon the bands of Jay doing bumps; Gene Krupa waving and "They All Laughed." 25605—"Posin*" and "If You Should De Lange starting Phil Baker com• Mills, George Olsen, Wayne King, a baton instead of a drumstick; 25519—"They Can't Take That Away Ever Leave." mercial program. Vocalist Elisse Arlie Simmonds and Don McGrane Cooper to apear on show with ork Jack Wardlaw's trailer-traveler; From Me" and "I've Got 25607—"Don't Ever Change" and and the Southern Gentlemen. Bill• ...Al Kavelin slated for Stephens Blue Barron's band at the Para• Rain in My Eyes." "Our Love Was Meant To board, incidentally, has been going Be." Hotel, Chicago. mount, and a swell new pictuie of 25553—' Turn Off , the Moon" and overboard in building up its coin 25610- "Who'll Be the One This Irene Taylor. "Jammin'." | operators' department, a commend• Summer?" and "Is This Swing Street. 25556— "Black Eyes" and "Blue Dan- j able move, since it gives one of the ubc." I Gonna Be My Lucky Sum• Fifty-second Street scene sees, as Downheal mentioned, Charlie Barber at Band• music field's leading outlets the 25557—"Wanted. " I mer?" An issue of Downbeat was due in box. Gus .Martel's ork also playing recognition it 'deserves. 25559—"Honeysuckle Rose" and ; 25620- "My Cabin of Dreams" and the mails' just about the time we here.. .Jack Jenny's ork, Merry "Blues." A Jam Session at i "Am I Dreaming?" were ready to go to press, so we "Stardust on the Moon" and Macks and Dr. Sausage & Pork New Game Victor,, 25630- haven't the latest informatior.. on "Having Wonderful Time." Chops, colored novelty band, at Swing Magazine, Detroit's gift to 25570—"Note" and "Satan Takes a that paper's poll to find the top mu• 25632—"Are All My Favorite Bands Onyx.. .Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo, the musical world, will introduce a Holiday." sicians and bands. However, we do Playing or Am I breaming?" John Kirby's band at Famous Door new quiz game in its next issue,,, 25573—"Wake Up and Live" and 1 .. .Spirits of Rhythm heading long have the most # recent copy on hand which hits the streets just about the "Sleep." 25047—"After You" and "All You list of acts at Little Club...Gordon and from that we learn that the fa• same time we do. It is built along- 25581—"Can't You Hear That Moun• Want to' Do Is Dance." Andrews' band behind Jack White's vorites in the Downbeat poll are the idea of Kay Kyser's s-tue.«-*.v tain M us ic ?" and " Good 25652—"The Big Apple," ; (comedy at 18 ciub:7/Joe Marsella Ena- Pif/.sccaW. vocalist; Biirmy College, but in print rather than in iTTornin'." 25673—"Tears in My Heart" and ' and band with Adele Girard at the -Goodman, soloist; Larry Clinton, person. Magazine showed consider• "The Lady Is a Tramp." 25591—"Love Is Never Out of Sca- Hickovv House...Fats Waller at the arranger; Goodman Quartet, tvio able advancement in Its last issue, son" and "Our Penthouse on 1 25676—"Josephine" and "If the Man Yacht Club. using more pictures and feature Third Avenue." . \ in the Moon Were a Coon." and quartet division; Artie 'Shaw, swing band; Casa Loma, sweet stories about ork leaders and their 25596- "Strangers in the Dark" and j 25695-^-"You're a Sweetheart" and leaving ciggie com• band; Harry James, swing trumpet; stars. New offer by Swing will give "Happy Birthday to Love." "Nice Work If You Can Get mercial to go on tour, his first away Tommy Dorsey, trombone; Bud fans ready-to-frame pictures of 25600—"Coin' Home" and "Humo- It." from Nyork area.. .Song Publishers' band leaders which have appeared resquc." 25821—"When the Midnight Choo- Contact Man Charlie Ross, promot• Freeman, tenor sax; Jimmy Dorsey, 25S03—"You're Precious to Me" and Choo Leaves for Alabam'" ing dancing and basketball games alto sax; Benny Goodman, clarinet;i n full-page size in the periodica/, "That Stolen Melody." and "Everybody's Doin' It," every Sunday at Westchester Coun• Bob Zurke, piano; Bob Haggert, for ten cents. 25623—"The Things 1 Want" and 25899—"As Long as You Live" and ty Center in White Plains, N. Y., piano; Gene Krupa, drums; Benny "Allegheny Al." A-Tisket, A-Taskci." gave up big name band policy and Heller, guitar; Henry Busse, corn Via the Campus 2563; Have You Got Any Castles,! 26005—"My Own" and "You're as is now featuring Herb Gordon, local trumpet; Russ ,Morgan, corn trom• A new musical paper. Collegiate Baby?" and "You've Got \ Pretty as a Picture." music man.. .Barney Rapp into bone; Carmen Lombardo, corn sax; Swing, made its debut last month, Something There." j 26023—"The Sheik of Araby" and, Gibson Hotel, , middle of Ted Lewis, corn clarinet; Eddie rolling off the presses of Lexington, 25648- "Vou and I Know" and i "Chinatown, My Chinatown." j this month... Artie Shaw winds up Duehin, corn piano; Candy Can- Virginia. It. directs its appeal to the "Goodbye Jonah." ; 26066—"You Must Have Been a I his Hotel Lincoln, N. Y., engage• dido, corn bass; Abe Lyman, com collegians of the country and will 25649- -"If You Were Someone Else" Beautiful Baby" and "Sailing ment end of this month... Joe drums, and , corn guitar. be issued bi-monthly"by O. W. Clcal and "An Old Flame Never at Midnight." j Haymes doing one-nighters in East Front page headlines announce that Jr. First headline proclaims Swing Dies." 26119—"Thanks For Everything" ....Matty Malneck, ex-Whiteman "Fanassie Predicts Ballyhoo Will as King Throughout the Nation! 25(157—"Night and Day" and "Smoke and "Do You Hemcmber Last ; vioilnist. doing fine for himself with Kill Jazz" and "N. Y. Musicians Paper also features considerable Gets in Your Eves." Night?" "-"'i outfit at Paramount Studios. Vote in Tense Election." Maestro comment on phonograph records. Wednesday, March 8, 1939 THE JAMBAR Page Three

International Relations. Parade of Opinion Club Again Organizes; and At the Theatres Makes Busy Season Plans Committees General accord is expressed with PALACE Out of all of the talk and writ• the "keep America ouj of any war" The International Relations Club March 7-9 On Stage: Ted Lewis ing on college campuses concerning idea, and many favor a policy on held its reorganization meeting and his orchestra with an all new From Hollywood the state of the world, one of the the part of our officials that would February 22 with eighteen mem• revue; On screen, "Boy Trouble" by Bernic Balmuth most unusual developments is the prevent them from making actions bers present. with Mary Boland, Charlie Rugglea formation at Temple University of or statements that might arouse the Fred Segal was elected president, and Donald O'Connor. The recent student poll conduct• a "Committee for Racial and Reli• ire of foreign nations. replacing Dan Chance who-headed March 10-13 Madeleine Carroll ed in student assembly by the Jam- gious Tolerance.'' Purpose of the Opinion is about evenly divided the organization last year. Betty and Fred MacMurray in "Cafe So• bar was a very wise move j»n;. the group is "to unify all groups and on • President Roosevelt's rearma• Jones was elected vice president, ciety*' plus "Boy Slaves" with Anne part of Editor Thomas. -T/he staff individuals on the campus who wish ment program. and William Bowen, secretary and Shirley. has at long last wrung "from > the to .promote racial and religious * * * treasurer, Victor Kurjan was ap• March (4-16: On stage: Eddy Du- students their opinion of'vtheir .pa• harmony." Propaganda pointed to write an International chin and his orchestra and revue; per! > V •. But, true to tradition, collegians College newspapers and student Relations column in the JAMBAR, on screen "Beauty for the Asking" cannot help adding a bit of satire organizations have been bombard• This seems peculiar, ddgsn't jt? and Dan Chance was made public• with Lucille Ball. to the whole situation. At Emporia, ed during the last month with let• It took a poll to make students ^cri• ity director of the group. Kansas, State Teachers College, un• ters.from "a Chinese student" ask• March 17-23: Irene Dunne and ticize their own paper! That th«y dergraduates have founded a "Com• ing for support of the Chinese Followig an open forum .discuss• Charles Boyer m "Love Affair." had criticisms was conclusively pro• mittee for the Investigation of Am• in the current "incident" with ion of the "Guam Fortification," WARNER ven by the results of the poll. That erica's Minding its Own Business in Japan. These letters ask that U. S. with all members taking pirtj re• they have no conception of'the pur• Now showing: "Honolulu" star• the Japanese-Spanish-German , sit• students "send letters to men in key freshments were served'by Mr. Mc- poses of the column ''Letters to the ring Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, uations." Every member must de• government positions urging them Corhle and his committee. Editor" is just as evident: When George Burns and Gracie Allen. velop a definite "ho hum" to be- to mate unlawful the sale or shi->- The next meeting will Ve held the entire student body comes -to Friday, March 10: "Huckleberry uscd in ignorirg foreign ft^o-ities. men of arms or munitions; a-d March 8 at 7:30 in Room l,12.,.Mr. the realization that each person has Finn'* with Mickey Rooney and Wal• Said one of the founders: ''We do other war materials to aggressor MeCorlde and Dr. Stearns are the ter Connolly. his bands in the working'"of any not intend to respond to anything nations." Surveys of collegiate opin• faculty sponsors. Friday, March 17: "Made for unit in the college activities—f-when' in the way of anything except what ion on the Sino-japanese v-ar indi• Each Other" Carole Lombard and each student begins to realize M&at we think of ourselves. We support cate that the collegians believe Ja- James Stewart. the failure in any one of these ufjSts nothing. We arc against everything. can to be the aggressor, that the is just as much his liability "as that PARAMOUNT We do not feel that we have suffi• U. S. should take the side of war- Music Note:! of the student in charge if he has Now showing: Don Ameche and cient information to justify any• torn China. refrained from offering, either'"as• Ritz Brothers in "Three Muske• thing, especially effort.*' sistance or advice—then would .Yo• But most collegians believe to• By Woodrow Van Court ' teers" and Jane Withers in "Ari• Co have the ''tvue college spirit'" And that, E>t least, is a new way day that the U. S. should not go he. Grand opera,its color, drama, mu• zona Wildcat." von"! it* borders to fight another which so many find lacking—then of dramatizing a non - intervention sic, and imaginative flights more March 17: W. C. Fields and nation's battles. Not so word-strong wo"ld each and every student mer• .policy. "orstinuously enjoyed by New York Charlie McCarthy in **You Can't are mns' ed'tornl" on th^ ei,M/-ct it "Petey Penguin" as his nom de * * * with its Metropolitan opersi — is Cheat, an Honest Man." and ''Little as the one in the University of Miss• plume. Trends made possible to Youngstown Tousrh Guys in Sosiety," with Dead issippi Mijsispippion. but r-*o*t seem But on the foreign situation in through the San Carlo Opera com- End Kids. This is the belie? of the entire general, college and university un• to be in accord with its sentiments: Dany that averages 300 performan• Jambar staff which strives to the. STATE dergraduates seem to be in as much . '"No one questions the fact that ces a year in fifty to sixty oities of best of its ability to represent the r>t a quandary as most U. S, citizens. aggression and brusli'y are abhor• the'Unitcd States and Canada. For• March 7-9: "Ambush" Lloyd student body as it dictates. This is The following seems to be the gen• rent to a civilized people such as tune Gallos, the producer, doesn't Nolan and "Juvenile Court" Frank- the. beJV-? of all those students who eral trend on the campuses today: we Americans pride ourselves on ask a subsidy and so far h.» **as es• ie Darro and his gang. already merit "Petey" for t>e inter• beinj?. But for such a nation to be caped anyways near a deficit. March 10-13; "Paris Honey- est they have shown V» YoCo act• AII beJieve that aid should hi r>ioched by the nose and carried mon" Bing Crosby and "Forged ivities and functions. This is not Riven refugees, and many student For the Park Theatre performan• into a propagandist^ woodshed to Passport'*, Paul Kelly. only—ONE MAN'S OPINION. groups are raising funds to finan• ce of Verdi's "Rigoletto" Monday. cially prove their symoathy with h?ve its mind whipped into shape March 20, a remarkable cast of March 14-16: "I Was a Convict" is equally abhorrent. It's about time AND MORE— the downtrodden of all nations. ringing actors, a large chorus of Barton MacLanc and "Little Ad• c the U. S. besan to be a little more venturess." The poll showed that, while 50 Few suopor? 'h" "?e-s-*~ut;on o new, youn g members, a corps de selfish in its convictions. If neces• March 17 - 20: "Sunset Trail," per cent of the students are r>er- rr-inorities, and most all heap coals ballet that gives entertainment on sary, we can 'live alone and like it.* Hopalong Cassidy and ** St. Loui feetly satisfied with ONE MAN'S of deiitrtciation on the heads of the its own account, brilliant orchestra The only thanks we've ever had for Blues," Lloyd Nolan and Dorothj OPINION, the remaining students 'otalitarian states. and excellent ensemble sinking, all sticking our noses into the affairs Lamour. think it is as big a flop as some Democracy is supported enthus• combine to attain a blend of bal• of other nations is a bunch of repu. PARK of Hollywood's contemporary high• iastically, but many believe that ance with precision that is only dialed debts and an invitation to Now Showing, "Moonlight Son• ly-budgeted films. steps should be taken to promote its possible in a first class production. play the sucker again." support by groups of all ages. Freshness of the colorful costumes ata" with Poderewski; Therefore, it is evident that this and the scenic settings will contri• March 10-13: "Duke of West column either contains some worth• bute to the making of a memorable Point'* and "Society Smugglers." less material or is lackina: in some performance. March 14-16, "Nancy Drew, Re• things which the dissatisfied read• Letters to the Editor porter" and "Dark Rapture." ers believe would bo interesting. March 17-19 "Idiots Delight" and Which is it?. . .and, if so—what? Editor, jambar. Sir: satisfaction will be gained—that is, Spring On the Way "Risky Business." PLAYS AND PROGRAMS if we conscientiously try. (Continued From Page 1) This problem of marking has be• March 20 San Carlo Opera com• Offering herewith short reviews We may be able to deceive our• ry . . the Flit (Leeson) ! come quite seroius. What are most pany in "Rigoletto". of plays which have recently passed selves by thinking that we are gen• of us doing about it? We're either Bob Anderson has been going beneath your writer's reading lamp iuses, but there will come a day. adopting an "I don't care" ai-ti?ud<- down to Ohio State to see his and radio programs of unusual mer• It's better to take a fall now than or grumbling among ourselves. Of many loves. The last time lie went Mary Carter who has gone unnotic• it. . . later. Do you rer.iember the old ad- course thee are a few who noedr-'t ''down thar" he was caugh: speed• ed for some crazy reason. Boys, ar,-e, "You can't teach an old do either. To them, this missive is ing 100 miles per hourl "Was I wake up before it's too late! This PLAYS dog—?" not of particular importance. driving too fast?" asked the timid is open season. This is the time to • "The Wind and the Rain'1 by Yours truly. Bob. go out and capture yourself a wo• Merton Hodge is an interesting lit• Let's stor> and think over the sit• Bob Rott "Heck, no,'' answered the patrol• man I So 'hurry . . . only fourteen tle comedy having nothing to do uation. Are you one of those who man, "you were flying too low." days till spring! with the elements. It relates the *s ffrumhlirKT over a 'D' o' a 'B* Dear Editor, John Roe is staring the open sea• experiences of a medical student t^nt -^oulJ have be«-n a *0* or an The Evening Student Council has son in spring by trying to be a from his entrance to the Scottish 'A'? Have you ever paused to con• just completed an evening student draftsman. Well, he sure has a university to his graduation. Mr. sider that perhaos your instructor survey regarding the popularity of good start ... he has n lot of Hodie wisely refrains from allowing is doirtR you a fpvor by not <*ivin« the JAMBAR column "'Loquacious draft I dialects to interfere with his play. vou the ber-fit of the doubt? Some at Night Time.'' No doubt the open season on "Why Marry?" by Jesse Lynch of oif professor-! t**rtd to m:>t'e it Of thr. 934 students in evening love will find someone for beautiful Williams is a social comedy deal• easier for us, and as a result, they classes, 933 voted yes for this col• ing quite cynically and satirically arc ceatinw an unnatural and arti- umn. The inquiring reporter was j with a marital queston. Though it *i^ial environment. When we get out not allowed to vote. This overwhel- | was a Pulitzer Prize winner, some into the world, we're not going to ming majority proves definitely. ; will like it and others will find it be a°*'ed whether we received 'B* that the evening students like this The too sexy. or 'D' in <-i>^ec:e. hut we shall be column. told to produce. Upon the result We sincerly wish you and your RADIO depends our future. Viking Club Don't fail to listen to a Fred Al• whole staff continued success for Most of our professors try to be len program. He's a true entertain• the rest of this year. Presents sympathetic in their attitudes, hut it er offering an hour of fine humor Very truly, yoursf can't be expected that they all grade First Time aa a while many other 30-called comed• THE EVENING STUDENT the same. Primarily, th« marks will The Annual Regular Feature ians fail to click for even a half COUNCIL an hour. be the same, but each individual will have his own standard; so it Paul F, Hrabko, Secretary "ilroakrrHt If you haven't done so already, is unfair to hand in the same work Wilford R. Eckert, President. Dance try Bob Hope's program and see to two different instructors. Then of the why a few of the top comedians Spring you might say, "Well, grade with are beginning to worry. a 'P' or an *F\" Such a system also Looking Around Kellogg's ''Circle*' program look• has its disadvantages. There are al• Shamrocks HATS ed as if it would be a complete (Continued from Page 2) ways those who are content to At In 10 different colors and 3 flop at the first, but it has already merely just get along. Therefore, is down the steps. . . . *'The frat pin brim dimensions! AH are improved 100 per cent and is still STAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM it fair to place such jtudents in the was silver and shiny" he said. ''It "Durotized" to repel water going stronger. MARCH 17, 1939 and hold their shape. Sizes same category with those who do was a huge thing, really, with a Featuring 6 3-4 to 7 1-2 for all men. better or excellent work? The more black stone in the middle and would Wick Mackey and his Men's Shop — Street Floor true experience obtained, the more 1 wear it?" Tenderly he presented Orchestra Dinner Guest: "Will you please efficient we shall become. So,', it one nre with a three foot thermo, bor• 9:30 to 1:30 STROUSS- pasi the nuts. Professor?' of those "rough" instructors • is- rowed from the little room next to Admission $1.25 Per Couple Professor: "Yes, I suppose so, but chosen, even if we fail and are the lounge—that's love, girls, in an HIRSHBERG'S I really should flunk most of them." compelled to repeat, experience and academic sort of way. Page Four THE JAMBAR Wednesday, March 8, 1939

Campus Camera The Jambar Support Our Advertisers! In our recent Jambar "popularity poll" WHOUT AW PREVIOUS -SCHOOLING, Published Bi-Weekly by the students of there were several suggestions that we have a weekly paper and that we have more advertis• HERBERT Youngstown College ing. Of all the many suggestions offered, this "We best serve you in serving our college' undoubtedly was the one we would most like 14-YEAR 0U> CHIL0 GENIUS, IS PREPARING TO BE AMATH- ,i to "follow thru" with. EMAT3CAL PHYS1CST BY TAKING v 1938 Member 1*39 PHYSICS* CHEMISTRY, MECHANICS We have been striving since September to AND TRIGONOMETRY AT Pissocvcded CbUegide Press build up our advertising so that we might have .SANTA ANA OR. COLLEGE/ Distributor of ALTHOUGH HE ALREAW more money with which to put out either a HAS PASSED THE ENTRANCE eing spent on armaments. Hund• flict and competition with one an'J' Business Manager Myron F. Noll reds of thousands of men in nearly other. * Advertising Manager ... • Bill Litvi^ \ '^very country are being taught to Assistant Joe Seefried march and fight. And yet-—nobody What should be done? If the Circulation Manager Frank McLaughlin . Campus wants to fight. The people do not ''status quo" nations do make con• Advertising Solicitors: George Schwager, Betty! want war. Why, then, do men go on cessions, how will the dissatisfied Morrison, Jack Kennedy, Nathan Natemar. . preparing for itr" nations act) Will they be satisfied Joel Bevington, Ethylen James, Mike' Certain nations, chiefly Japan, with better living conditions, or will Hettler. Germany, and Italy, hope to get j they seek additional power and prestige through the concessions Circulation Staff: Fred Hill, Betty Hossetf. By 'trough war what they have been unable as yet to get through peace. made> Bear in mind the fact that Phyllis Jones, Rose Mary Donnelly, Jack nations have been forced into dic- Headd, Peg Wylie. Dave Macktf These "have-not*' nations claim that they can no longer endure i tatorship through economic neces• sity. Faculty Advisor Professor John W. Bare RETURN ENGAGEMENT their present economic conditions They are demanding that changes Again, what difference does it We are deeply indebted to Mr. Sigal for be made to give them the land and All unsigned editorials are written by the make what the disatisfied nations do his letter to the editor printed in the last resources by which they may have with the proposed concessions > If Editor-in-Chief and represent the opinion of issue. Not only does it prove that somebody security from hunger and unem• peaceful concessions are not made, the Jambar. reads this tripe, but it also gives us a. chance ployment and obtain a decent stan• these nations will go to war to ef- i to re-amphasize the conditions in the lounge dard of living. These nations insist feet a change. Since the "have-not" : room and affords us an opportunity to fill up that they do not want war, but nations have everything to gain and ©w a column space. they demand a change and are pre• little to lose, while the "have" na• pared to take risks to bring this tions, mainly England and France, The Jambar has been "let in" on & secret. Mr. SigaPs letter was undoubtedly prompt• about. stand to lose the most by war; and, ed by friendship rather than knowledge of the At this point it is necessary that furthermore, since nobody "wins" a, We can't tell you exactly what it is, but we can ;ase, and we have witnesses who will back up we recognize one fact: in the world war, the only sensible thing'to do to give you a good. hint. our story that although the ashtrays were ac- in which we live today nations are ^ provide for the welfare of all is to cidently knocked over—the debris was left Recently, fifty-six students were compelled no longer independent units, able to | make concessions to those desper- r'-ere deliberately. We were also accused of live by themselves. They are now ' ate- nations to bring about a peace• to leave Youngstown College because they had "yellow journalism and villification of a lowly interdependent parts of a complex ful change. fallen down in their scholastic standing. The -yne." It is true that the method used was a occasion was unprecedented in the history of trifle gauche, but certainly not out of keeping YoCo, though other "purges" have been made «''ith the conditions which we were trying to Collegiate Exchanges which weren't quite as drastic. correct. He goes on further to mention that "if we are to mature along with the college . . . The Delta Tau Delta and Beta This step by the administration served as -hat more would be accomplished by concen• choicest of femininity from both' Theta Pi fraternities withdrew from trated effort." And a little later on in this the University of Akron and Kent a forewarning to the remainder of the student the Ohio University Inter fraternity massive missive he calls it "unintelligent and State University will be gathered body that a student with poor grades would Council after the Council voted for vicious drivel" simply because we had the auda• together for the intercollegiate the limitation of fraternity member• not be tolerated. It marked a definite trend city to assume that college students should have Battle of Beauty to be held on Sat• ships to sixty. Later reports from towards strengthening the academic standard had enough training in the social, graces to urday, March 18. University stated that the Delta Tau of the school. know and do what is right. But to change the The occasion will be an Akron Delta and Beta Theta Pi will be re• subject—a congratulatory pat on the back to U.-Kent State Goodwill Dance to be presented at the Faculty Fraternity Though we feel sorry for some of those the students who in the past five weeks have sponsored by the Butchtelite and Committee's meeting to continue students who were forced to leave, the Jambar made an effort to keep the lounge clean and the Kent Stater, campus newspap• tbeir protest against limitations un• heartily approves such a purging action. The orderly. ers, til university authorities should of• more difficult it is for a student to get good . Akron Buchtelite PETEY PENGUIN ficially approve and proclaim the grades and remain enrolled the higher will be regulation of maximum fraternity Who is he? They call him "the kid"— the academic standard of our school. memberships. Ohio State University is attempt, guaranteed to get in ten sentences to your Ohio Creen and White But, to get back to our secret, we must ing to outlaw all jallopies on its. one word. "Who is she?" Dark-haired, business campus. Stock report: American say that in the office of President Jones there school, Irish, and we can't un• Can headed for a new low, is a comparatively long list of students who Out at University of Indiana the derstand why the boys haven't bows in girls* hair mean more than Blodgctt of Toledo U, have been placed on "probation" because of looked into this before. ''Snor- just a decoration or ornament. low marks. Some of the students on this list ky" Wilson would make a swell When the ribbon is worn on the right side it means that Betty Co-ed Congratulations are in order for have been warned; others have not. But the walking advertisement for those surprising part of the whole affair is the un• is a customer of the date bureau Kent State University. The paper, companies who claim that pep for the coming week-end, but if it expected and familiar names which can be named the Kent Stater, will have tho comes in a package. What four appears on the left she's all dated distinction of being the only tri• found on this "black list." fellows are having a race to up. When the bow ia on topj boys, weekly in Ohio and one of the few, We dislike very much to betray a conn*-, see which one can do whatit' first,s no me, cause thethroughout h&i 8 had the nation. So, io our* 11 dence, but in order to save a few persons from and who beat them to it? case of "steady-itis." neighbors at Kent State we wisll "getting the axe," we feel that we shouldn't Keep in touch with us, we will let you Does Akron have the most, beau• t;he best of luck and will be looking forward to reading! the new Keiit keep this secret entirely to ourselves. know. tiful women—or does Kent> The Staters. J 1 Wednesday, March 8, 1939 THE JAMBAR Page Five

Penguin Cagers Practice Jumping Center Record Youngstown Cage rs for Past Season Youngst own Opponent jncing, Dancing, and Mixed 19 Mt. Union 27 47 Swimming to Make Up 18 Davis-Elkins Reserves Hand I. M. Champions' *30 Geneva 45 Rest of Program First Set Rack With 28 Wash. & Jeff. 41 34-17 Walloping 32 Hiram 34 Voungstovm Collie students will 36 • West Liberty . 34 noid their fu^t annvifsl "College In- In the final game of the season, 36 Davis-Elkins 51 traimiral Ni^ht." i;nd«r (he super• St. Vincent College nosed out the 37 . Alumni 29 vision of Rdnny Loyshon, at the Penguins 47-3 7 in an exciting 34 West Liberty 16 Y. M. C. A. next Wednesday eve• game at the Y gym Saturday night. ning, March I 5, 38 Westminster 41 23 Ohio College 25 The game was similar to the pre• The most outstanding players in 39 Thiel 35 vious encounter between the two the Youngstown College Intramural •3 7 St. Lawrence U. 45 rivals as both teams battled on Basketball League will meet the even terms until the final period 27 St. Vincent 42 Penguin Reserves in one of the main when the cagers from Latrobe stag• 39 'Thiel 25 events of the evening. Between hal• ed a belated rally. 27 Bowling Green 33 ves spectators will enjoy three fen• 45 Hiram, 22 The teams were deadlocked at cing matches between YoCo stu• 41 Westminster 56 halftime 15-15. By the end of the dents. 37 St. Vincent 47 third quarter St. Vincent was lead• A well balanced program has ing 33 to 17. Lally of St. Vincent )een arranged and will include the was again the high scorer with,21 basketball game, mixed swimming, tallies, while Bergman of Youngs- and dancing in the "Y'* auditorium. er to-vn accounted for 14 of the losers The party will begin at 8 p.m. ns points. -•II college students cordially In the preliminary the highly o attend. Price of admission The Sig Delts ended their Intra• touted Penguin Reserves gave the >er person, mural League schedule with flying Delta Beta Intramural Cham• affair ha3 been whole heart- colors a3 they completly smothered pionship team a 34-17 shellacking. pproved by President Howard the Eagles last Monday, 41-157 to s and should prove to be one The Sig Delts, who had only five gain undisputed possession of the of their seven men, were able- to the most outstanding parties of Intramural Basketball Champion• cial season. give a good account of themselves ship. « until the last quarter when the Re- " hers of the Intramural All The game was completly one sid• serves began hitting the hoop from iketball squad as selected III ed from start to finish as the victors ey^ery angle. The winners were iy Leyshon arc: P. Bowers, iiii offense and defense clicked with a- leading by four points at halftime .mms; E. Long, R. Curl, Bar-: sisal mazing precision. At halftimc the and by three points at the beginning ' All Stars; J. Heber, T. Geho, Hi count was 19 to 7. of the last quarter. • — Warden, D. Thomas, P. Lynn, Heber, Sig Delt forward, again McLaughlin accounted for.ten.of Sig Delts; Perantoni, Grubis, Barons; won high scoring honors with 12 the Jr. Varsity points, while Heber and J, Pressley, No Stars.'. points." Bevjngton was the high made six for the losers. ' "V. point man for the Eagles, with 6 points to his credit. St. Vincent G. F. P. Ahoye can be seen Kenny Bergman, forward, and Jack Green, -The win was the "seventh straight Shea 2-2 6-- guard, attempting to get the tip,off during one of the Penguin practice IS intramural victory for Sigma Delta Brown 4 I-*9~ sessions. who, incidently, were, under the ma• Lally 8- 5 21 Youngstown 56-41 nagership and coaching of Red Mc• Strosser 0 0 0 Laughlin. Nath .40 8 M. Miller, star Titan forward, Reeves I :3 aced a classy Westminster quiri- Penguin Patter to a 56-41 victory over the Penguins Run Wild Over Totals 19 _ 9.-47. jungstown College Penguins at By JAMES BROWN Hiram With 45-22 Win Jew -Wilmington last -week. Youngstown Gridders to Hold First Practice In Last Week of Youngstown G. F. ,P. Coach Ray Sweeney's five kept Youngstown College cagers, play• Bergman 4 6 14 August at Camp Fitch; Penguin Golfers Invited .thin range of the Titans.in the ing their best game of basketball Corletzie I 1 3 • for the 1939 campaign, romped to rly part. of the game, but the To Join Ohio Association Sylak 1 0 2 a 45-22 triumph over a' hapless Hi• tors swarmed in a barrage of Meyer ,4 I 9 ram quintet last week to avenge a uckets in the finale to pull away Coach Dike Beede anonunced today that the Youngstown Reinehr 3 0 6 pre-season defeat by the up state •> a 52-31 lead. Youngstown rai• team will not hold spring practice as had been Enterline 0 0.0 aggregation. ded but-the lead was too great to rumored but that they will begin their regular prep sessions Patterson 1 I 3 be cut down. The Penguins held only a slim sometime in the last week of August. He stated that in all prob• lead, 16-12, at half time, hut start• Miller netted nine field goals and Totals 14 9 37 ability the team will journey again to Camp Fitch 'to undergo ed clicking shortly afterwards to /e fouls for a total of 23 points. storm in a consistant flow of points. YoCo G. F. P. strenuous training for the coming season. He is confident that Bergman, Meyer, and Corletzi ac• Bergman 3 3 9 the Penguin squad will be in top form next year and that they counted for 33 of the victors* tallies. Corletzi ..." 2 2 6 will have a very good season. At present the football schedule In the preliminary, the College World Champion Meyers 0 0 0 is undergoing a few minor changes, but it will be released some• Reserves trounced Fitch High's var• •-•Me 3 1 7 time in the near future. The Penguins, though, will open -their sity, 31-18. - ehr 2 I 5 ringfield College : second chapter of football history with Geneva. le I 1 3 Gym Team erline 2 1 5 GIFT HEADQUARTERS Youngstown college has been invited to join the Ohio Inter• terson I 2 4 FOR ALL OCCASIONS Only Performance Aiken 0 2 2 collegiate Golf Association, Dr. Castle Foard, Penguin Athletic McLaughlin 0 0 0 Diderctor announced today. The invitation came from L. C. Boles PUGH BROS. JEWELRY In Ohio Yauman 0 0 0 of Wooster College, president of the newly organized group. The 207 W. Federal St. This Season association plans a 72 hole medal play tournament at the Ohio Youngstown, Ohio DANCE AND RECEPTION Totals 14 13 41 State U. course on May 26-27. Due to a one year residence rule set up by the league it will be hard for Youngstown to enter TICKETS 50c estminster G. F. P. this year due to the poor cooperation on the part of the upper- On Sale in College Offico 'atton 2 0 4 classmen. In a recent meeting there were twelve applications QUALITY FLOWERS M. Miller . 9 5 23 made for berths on the Red and Gold squad with only two Sen• Stack ...... 0 2 2 iors present. Without the aid of students other than Freshmen Rayen Flower Shop Wilson 2 1 5 it will be impossible for YoCo to enter the Association. The Asso• 146 W. Wood St. J. Hctra 1 3 5 ciation would not only give plenty of helpful training to mem• Phone 66193 •riday, March 24 Riol I 4 6 bers, but it would also be another great step in the advancement Fox . . 3 0 6 of sports at Youngstown College. Yellig 0 2 2 F. Hetra ....0,2 2 Mercer 0 I 1 Are You Graceful? "FOR THE BEST" . 400 Club Inter-Fraternity Hop C. 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Phi" Gams Wallop Phi Kaps Nu-Elm Ballroom HI Engineering Supplies - Artists' Equipment / Dress Optional -&}Wf\ In one of the most one sided in- r 'vasnural battles of the year, the School Supplies Public Invited ''""" hi Gams walloped the Phi Kaps Admission $1.00 Per Couple, Tax Paid £8-5 yesterday to take second place CITY BLUE PRINTING, Ltd. Tickets On Sale at Stones Grill in the Intramural. League;. Bowers 36 W. Wood St. Phone 4-4S95 and Bra3? Rail -made 18-points for the winners. Wednesday,. Marco 8, ! 939 Page Six 'THE- JAMBAR

beautiful: girls'to 'da'nee with tnerh?: think that the answers to; such ques• Ken BeVgrrian ~— Freskrrian.' The; tioning; would, prove vitally interest• Jack Wagman Named Ticklers imons question, 1 .would ask would be^that ing'; i ... >; when a woman buys a new hat, and Number One ' Nettef Peg Cassidy —. "Sophomore. The My girl must be an alchemist ! By Medicus and. Murphy you know the only kind they can Jack Wagman, star^Red and Gold . goofier the questions, the better! . And .so I'll have to" diopher; buy, do they feel as silly as the netter, has been seeded number one Weil, it's Wednesday afternoon, People who study hard (supposed• For every time I take her out, hats look? It Jems to me that any on the Youngstown College tennis and we are in deep conference in ly) all day expect to .have some• My silver turns to copper. normal woman would have better team for the coming year, Dr. the clean corner of the lounge (be• thing more, or less frivolous to look We'd hate to dine with Myrna Loy sense than to let those latest Paris Foard announced today as he re• lieve it or not), trying with all our creations rest on her pretty, pretty; .forward to reading once every oth• She'd make us total wreck*. might to drum up a question for the er week. Other columns may con• leased a lengthy-list of prospective head. - ' x We'd rather dine with Hitler, week. We have discussed women, candidates. - tain such dry subjects as Economics, He always.grabs the Czechs! dates, good fellows, conditions of Fred Segal — Junior. Why not Mathetmatics etc., but give us ques• Norman Inglis is ranked second, the (lounge; in fact, all sorts of silly campaign for such a thing as de• tions dealing with jitterbugs, lounge with Stan Sylak, Dick Thomas, Art questions have been delved into, bate teams,.and enter into collegiate gossip, new hair-dos" and 'all things Durivagef Jack Leedey, Bod Hed- Please? , - ., l -. relationships? In this way the and we must have used them all. So, that aren't every day hum-drum af• lund, Alfred James, and Frank Mc• NO I • = *' Jambar would be the means by to save ourselves more worry and fairs. Laughlin following in order. Pretty please? strain upon our limited mental ca• which the college may be known The tennis schedulers also com• No.! pacities, we are now going out to to other institutions. To follow this pleted. Home games have been Just this once? ask students what questions they course, my column would try to in• drawn up with Hiram, Westminster No. ; would put in our column if they terest more students in outside ac• Women May Use Y Equipment and Mt. Union. The Penguins will Aw gee, mom—all the other kids bad the misfortunte of writing it. tivities. All women in Youngstown Col• travel to Case for a single match, are going barefoot It's just a novel idea, and absolute• Peg McFarland —— Freshman. Al• lege are invited to come to the "Y" and the Akron Zippers will visit ly not a means of escaping work. though my opinion doe3 not repre• and use the ping-pong and bad• here for one. The schedule will be So, "what do you think?" Women's faults are many, sent the attitude of the entire stu• minton equipment without charge, opened here on May 3rd against Men have only two, Betty Brown — Sophomore* I dent body, it does reflect the ideas Ping-pong tables are available all Hiram. would make a survey concerning of the majority of us Freshmen. I day and in'the evening. Everything they say ; • And everything they do. the problern-of why more men don't believe that if questions were asked The Y. W. C. A. has entered the dance at the noon dancing hour. It as to choice of the ideal Freshman National Sports Round choosing scheduled: isn't because the students do not girl or boy, and why, quite enter• ping-pong and badminton as the Monday 5-6, 7:30-8 p.m. Roses are red, know each other or because they taining results would arise. It is sports to be stressed. For those in• Tuesday, 12-1 p.m. Violets are blue, don't dance. Could it be that the common logic that competition adds terested in learning these sports, Wednesday 9-9:45 a.m. I think you're swell— man are bashf.ul about asking us spice to any phase; therefore. I the following classes have beep Friday 7-8 p.m. And so do you.

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