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Friday, April 4, 1941
In the groove
By Preston Hays.
We heard a story bout the
campus big-wigs who had a little
party. About 3 a. m. they floated
into a house, and being in a some
what sentimental frame of mind,
slopped a blues platter on the
machine. So goes the story that
the record was so sad that those
hard-hearted politicos broke down
and were soon having a good cry.
This tender story made us
anxious to hear Joan Marril's one
and only disk, "How did he look?"
Joan's sad tale of a broken heart
is about the best emoting we've
ever heard on a record. The plain
tive voice, the melancholic back
grounds, and Joan's hysterics
haunt us yet.... so listen, and
weep.
If you are still clicking coke
glasses and beating on Corn Crib
furnishings to the tune of Tany
Pastor's 'Taradiddle Joe," you
will get your kicks from his
"Wigwam Stomp"... We didn't
notice too much Indian color in
it, but it sent us cause it's like
the good old Kansas City darky
jazz. .. .heavy dotted rhythm,
those mournful unison saxes, and
that easy jump to it, yas suh! !
For recent arrangements we'll
take Alvino Rey's two-side jazzing
of "William Tell Overture." The
A side, lifted from Guiseppe Ros
sini's description of a lovely peace
ful morning gets completely un
tangled from the long hair... It's
solid, it's mournful, and it com
mences in a dirty boogie groove.
Alvino's guitar and fine ensemble
lend color and lots of it. The up-and-over,
the military movement,
starts with a sending tom-tom
beat that's far from the legitimate
version. . .then the trumpets take
a bugle call a la Dixie, the en
semble begins to drive, the reeds
begin to ride, Alvino goes virtuoso
on his gut-box, and the piano gets
dark, yeh! The brass really cuts
on this platter, and there's color
plus from bar 1 to the final beat.
This one goes in our collection for
sure.
Dialights
Public affairs
7:55 p. m. Elmer Davis and
the News KFAB.
12 p. m. Linton Wells Re
ports the News -CBS.
Drama
8:30 p. m. Campbell Play
house KFAB.
8:30 p. m. Everywoman's
Theater WOW.
9 p. m. Wings of Destiny
WOW.
ariety
6:30 p. m. Al Tearce and his
Gang KFAB.
7 p. m. Kate Smith Hour
KFAB.
7:30 p. m. Information
Please WOW.
Music
6 p. m. Pleasure Time, Fred
Waring WOW.
2:15 p. m. Frank Parker and
the Golden Treasury of Song
CBS. 8 p. m. Waltz Time WOW.
9:30 p. m. Alec Templeton
WOW.
There are ten miles of electrical
wiring in the main barracks of
The Citadel, the military college
of South Carolina.
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Jones's (oil of them ) have opportunity
to be guests at dinner party Thursday
If your name is Jones and you're
a regular student at the university,
you may be selected to be a guest
at Jean Arthur's dinner party
Thursday night.
The dinner is in celebration of
the Lincoln premiere of "The Devil
and Miss Jones," in which Jean
Arthur plays the title role. In
keeping with the spirit of the pic
ture, Miss Arthur is playing host
ess, by remote control, to univer
sity Joneses, calling for them be
fore the dinner in a cab, and send
ing them corsages, and bouten
nieres. All the Joneses need do to enter
the contest, which closes at mid-
Paul Barbour's
favorite book list
receives approval
Taul Barbour's favorite books
often become the favorites of
many of his listeners. Barbour,
deep-voiced, philosophical star of
"One Man's Family," mentioned a
short time a go a few of the new
books that have interested him,
and the letters that have since
flooded across the desk of Carleton
E. Morse, author of the dramatic
series, show that many readers in
the radio audience follow Bar
bour's taste in selecting their book
friends.
Classification Barbour gives to
the books he appreciates are as
follows:
Recently read and liked: "Froir
Many Lands," by Louis Adamic;
"Watch Below," by William Mc
Fee; "Seven Mysteries of Europe"
by Jules Romaines; "Audubon's
America," by Donald Cilrosc Peat
tie; "Since Yesterday," by Fred
erick Lewis Allen.
Exceptional adventure stories:
"Captain Horatio Homblower," by
C. S. Forester; "Dark Memory,"
by Jonathan Latimer; "Old Ugly
Face," by the late Talbot Munday,
former author of Jack Armstrong,
the Ail-American boy.
Worth reading: "The Forsythe
Saga," by John Galsworthy; "The
Native's Return," by Louis Ada
mic; "South Wind," by Norman
Douglas, and "Short Stories," of
Saki.
This week's
ten best books
Fiction.
RANDOM HARVEST, by James
Milton.
H. M. PULHAM, ESQ., by J. P.
Marquand.
OLIVER WISWELL, by Ken
neth Roberts.
DELILAH, by Marcus Goodrich.
FOR WHOM THE BELL
TOLLS, by Ernest Hemingway.
Non-Fiction.
OUT OF THE NIGHT, by Jan
Valtin.
AMBASSADOR DODDS, edited
by Martha and William Dodds, Jr.
BEHIND GO'S BACK, by Neg
ley Farson.
THE WHITE CLIFFS, by Alice
Miller.
THE DONKEY INSIDE, by
Ludwig Bemelmans; .
night tonight, is to register with
A. W. Hendricks, Varsity theater
manager. He will give the list of
entries to judges Clyde Martz,
DAILY editor, and Ed Segrist,
DAILY business manager. They
win select the tallest Jones, the
shortest Jones, the one who came
the longest distance to enroll here,
the Jones with the best scholastic
standing, the most freckled Jones,
and the most outstanding athlete,
and the prettiest Jones twins (if
any.)
Tomorrow's DAILY will carry
the judges' verdict.
Premiere star
Filmdom's Paulette Goddard
steps in to take over starring
honors tonight in the second pro
duction of Louella Parsons'
"Hollywood Premiere" series. She
will play the motion picture role
in a radio adaptation of "Pot o'
Gold," James Roosevelt's most re
cent production.
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In the Book Nook
by George Abbott.
11. M. Pulham, Esquire
Selected for the book of the
month for March, this novel by
John P. Marquand, author of "The
Late Mr. Apley," and "Wickford
Point" tells the story of a Harvard
man, H. M. Pulham, Esquire, and
the effect of his early environment
in a famous preparatory school,
mixing with Boston society, and
his club at Harvard, upon his later
life.
It is a story of people, not as
people out of the ordinary, but as
types of individuals, and in this
case the characters are the college
bred, society-loving people in New
England. Here, Marquand has all
the types that invariably are as
sociated with post-college days.
Here the reader finds the big foot
ball man of the class, Bo-jo Brown,
still talking about his heroism, his
remarkable record for dear old
Yale; here, an intellectual real
ist, Bill King, who turns out to be
Bo-jo's best friend; here are the
loves of Harry Pulham, "who had
the thoughtful kind of intelligence
that keeps analyzing every person
around him, but never effectively
himself."
Remember the people.
The girl picked out for Harry
to marry even during his childhood
was Kay Motford; he marries her.
Kay has an infatuation with Bill
King, while Harry "down deep"
knows he really loves Marvin
Myles, who has combined intelli
gence with a capacity for sacrific
ing a career. But in the end, Harry
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and Kay discover that they can
not go back Kay to Bill and
Harry to Marvin. While that is the
plot, as a whole the reader will
probably remember the people and
not the story about the people.
According to Henry Seidel
Canby, reviewing the book for the
Book of the month club, "Mar
quand" has written a story of
those whose character is their
fate and its characters are such as
the author describes in his wise
preface, not individuals copied
from life, but types created to fit
into a society created by him, in
which most of us can see the Bo
jos and the Kays and the Mar
vins and. the Bill Kings that we
have known without knowing just
what they were like."
Typical characters.
And adding particular life to
this story by Marquand are two
of the main characters, Harry
Pulham himself, "who came back
from the war aware of the dirt
and blood in real heroism to meet
Bo-jo, the big stuffed shirt, the
selfish sentimentalist, who is al
ways gathering in the honors and
the cash just because he is Bo-Jo
who won the Yale game, and was
a symbol of dear old Siwash, and
knew the right people, and how to
make them work for him." These
two individuals, the type every
one knows and recognizes from
their own acquaintances, these
two make the reading of the book
worth while, if nothing were saifl
about the other characters.
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