PROTEST POP MUSIC ATTACK! Musicians Not Hearings on Leaders Wire Scarce—Pollack Tea Charges Senators Who Start Feb

CHICAGO. FEBRUARY IS, PROTEST POP MUSIC ATTACK! Musicians Not Hearings on Leaders Wire Scarce—Pollack Tea Charges Senators Who Start Feb. 16 Sidemen Themselves Took Fast Rap Have Wrong Picture New York—Trial of Pvta. Mike Bryan and George Auld on nar Of True Situation cotic charges, originally scheduled "Good Thing If Ban On for February 4, was «witched to Chicago "Im rearing induction« February 16 by joint agreement Records Wipes Out All nay alter the situation, but there of the government and defense at Jive and Jazz," They Say hat- been no serious snortagi of torneys Bryan ha» already been good musicians up to this point,” given u sentence of a year in jail ■aid Ben Pollack, manager of the y a military court on charges of Chicago—Indignant pro | Chieo Marx orchestra, during their desertion, this because of his ab tests from America’s nam recent engagement at the Oriental sence from a military stockade in theater here. Miami last month. bandleaders flooded the U. S. Two other defendants, Teddy Senate in U aahington last Reig and Rose Reynolds, will prob “If you’re talking about the week as a mult of ihe rurtitin- ‘name’ sidemen, chaps who have ably plead guilty to chargee of built reputations with big bandx, evasion of the marijuana tax law. wide publicity drriding popu Andrew Weinberger, Auld’a at that’s something else again,” add lar American mnide stirred up ed the chubby discoverer of more torney, said he thought he would real musical talent than any lead fight the ease pointing out that by the senate's investigate« Auld was merely charged with con er in the field. “But during our of the Petrillo-Recording site- week at this theater, I have had spiracy io evade the tax law, mean More applications from truly com ing that he knew of various of the ation. transact inn» concerning Pvt. Bry petent musicians than in any pe Committee Chairman Clark, riod I can recall. an and Ursula Parrott, well- known novelist Weinberg« r added drinoerat from Idaho, and Senator “Don’t forget that then cer Andrews, Florida democrat, were tainly are fewer big bands in that, after all, anyone who told the targets. They led a sizable •etio । Every month, up to ww, anyone else in the days of pro group of senators who loudly bro one or two or more name leaders hibition where to get a bottle of claimed that “if the ban on reeetd- have disbanded. They didn’t Gave hooch was guilty of the same mgs wipes uut jitterbug music, ■sail combinations and they didn’t crime, the only difference being jive and boouie wuogie, it might be take all of their men with them that Uns wa» a n»n popular law i good thing all or iuntL” than the Volstead amendment. iaio the service. Leaden Cet Busy No Work «1 Home 1uremosi aiming the maestro« to "Soin- of these boys decided take exception to the politicians’ they didn’t want to tour any longer raviags were Stan Kenton, Count st |100, they’d go back to their Andrews Sisters Basu-. Sonny Duihiun, Woody tasn. tow ns u.id work for |60. Bui Herman Benny Carter, Jimmy they eventually discovered that the Dorsey and Vaughn Monroe. all of von. wasn’t there. So they become Fight Over Name whoa were said to have wired available until they go into serv Senator» Clark ard X ndrewi pro ice thenuwlvea New York—Another music-world tasting their jiurx ind utterances “Only one bad result from all law urit popi*ed up here when Lhe on a subject with which, as Kenton th» talk about real shurtagi- of Andrews Sistera (singing trio) worded it, “you are ibviously not sidemeii, Too many ‘C’ men are brought suit for an injunction to restrain the Andreus Sisters (Lil (Modulate io Page 2) demanding *A' salaries—and hop Landlady Says I tog they’ll get away with it.” lian and Vivian, dancers) from Artie Shaw Band using the name Andrews Sisters JD Ruined Home as a billing, charging that such Offices Switch billing was an attempt to cash in At Pearl Harbor Lus Angeles—June Price, North on their popularity. Alec Templeton Pearl Harbor — Artie Shaw’s Hollywood property owner, has At the same time, the dancing To Small Units navy band ia now in Pearl Harbor filed a suit here againat Jimmy Andrew« Sisters filnd a counter New York—Harry Mora, who playing at the Breakers, a new Dorsey in which the lauy asks suit maintaining that La Verne, handled one-nightero for Music Returns to Air Maxene and Patty along with Lou club for enlisted men, as scooped for $4,070 to cover damage to a Corporation of America, is now in New York — Alee Templeton, l>evy, their manager, and General charg« nf «wall hands and c'cktaU blind pianist, returns to the air in Down Beat several months ago house at 14412 Greenleaf Ave., imuit m*nt Cozpoi ation «ere try jimbo» far that company. Chalk sometime this month after a long The band, called the Rangers and Sherman Oaks, which, she states ing to force them to change the the appointment up as another absence, to do three-a-week five made up of seventeen nieces, > in her suit, was -riBtaincd by «hr name of their act and also were sign of the times because all the aunuto broadcasts Mond* « playing on Thursday and Sunday property while Jimmy ami his spreading false rumors about them. booking agencies are taking the Wedni-»days, and Fridays over afternoons on the beach at Wai family were living in it. emphasis off the big name hands Blue Network. kiki and also at the Pearl Harbor Miss Price alleges that Jimmy with their troublesome one-nite Officers’ Club. and his musician friends practi jumps and underlining the smaller Personnel of the band is as cally “wrecked” her house by Oxley Drops All outfits. printed in the Beat shortly before breaking furniture und fixtures For example, two press-time re the band left, with tenor-man Sam «nd marring decorations. The ork ports have boti Charli« Ba • net and Donahue, pianist Claude Thornhill leader was not in Ixm Angele-, Fletcher Henderson thinking of BLUE NOTES and Dave Tough, drums, outstand when the suit was filed and could But Lunceford cutting then banc* ¿own Ij pockev- >= Ir tos mo ing among a top-notch group of not be reached here for his side New York—Harold F. Oxley haa size, while the William Morrie of side men. Shaw not only has a new of the story. reorganized his office and will here fice has just signed Estelle Slavin, TTrn beet bombe of all gu Io band but must also have a new leader of a fix '-piece girl band, Berlui «nd faU after concentrate on Jimmie Lunee- and g*«d pre» agent, Im-causc lust ford exeluaively for the duration and will prvhabiy start her at a word from the former clarinetist Because of the transportation 52nd Street dub. leader aays that his latest ambi situation, pleasure driving ban and tion is to entertain at a party to be Mystery gasoline rationing, Oxley has de thrown at the palac. of Emperor Several months ago, Djangn cided to give up handling of the Hirohito on the day that the U. S. Tommy Keynolaa band and other Navy lands in Tokyo. Reinhardt, the great gypoy-iaaa gnitariot, waa reported deed in interests in the music field, to de Wald and Twins Europt. Since then, iiinfiictii»» vote himself pirw in ally to booking and operation of the Lunceford report* have reached the Ihwrn On the Cover Beat offices about the man who orchestra, now in its tenth year as Eugenia Baird Bandiera» Jerry Wald, the made •«« tnany fainou« record an Oxley property. riarinel-piay’iig, I ri-art-breaking ing* with the Hot Quintet oi One of the n>untry*s veteran With Casa Loma baud operators, Oxley uoiwvcs that band leader, comes nn with • Franre. line had hint alive and Valentine serenade for the ben doing radio «hot« wired out of wart im’.i enu . gency knock out New York— Glen Gray has Grade B and C names by summer. efit nf the gorgeou. Churchill broken a precedent that he had Paris and heard in Egypt over Twins, Jean and Jane, aba previously broken m theaters, and short-wave, while other! held hired Eugenia Baird as the band’s that Django bad been »een re Hotea Word Single eently in New York City. It vocalist, th« first time the Casa New York- -Helen Ward, former "Seai" Davis to buiUng up bis Loma band has had a permanent Benny Goodman singer, was di band became bo can’t get mmm! fem soloist Previously Anita vorced Iasi month fmui Albert Many leaders can’t —drr Boyer had sung with th- band in Mark», and will return co the music why a Utile thing like lluu theatere and the LeBrun Sisters, a business, probably as a singing trio, had worked with them. single. DOWN BEAT NEWS Chunsg«. Febtwory 1A 1MB Leaders ReSCnt I Carroll Crowns Clarinetist This Story May Reunite T1 Crack on Music J. Dortgy. Kenton, Couple of Lost Sisters Herman and Othars Ne Sand Wirai to Senat« all oi re. Worrell static familiar. will the Beat opportunity to compare note«. Down Bout knows, of cou nw, the The name of the girl in the picture. perfor itself h’s Ihr She is Mrs Otto Winkler, the rubbin widow of the popular publicity cuatonr mar who died with Carole Lem paid i bard in the airplane crash last elude year.

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