Musical Figures Highlight 1940s Band Scene
Artie Gives Continued From Page 4 were OK staged in New York. Tommy Tucker, praised for provocative titles, is a Phi Beta Kappa. His The Man that Comes Around was a best seller. Ray Hutton, 108 pounds, leads an all male orchestra and holds three lifesaving medals. Six top bandleaders began with Benny Goodman who wrote a famous autobiography at 30. Huff Allen, trombonist with Johnny Messner, earned a master’s in history and economics at NYU and hopes to teach. Messner, composer of She Had To Go And Lose It and The Skunk Song, is a Juilliard graduate.
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Music Scene Highlights and Band Leader Rivalries
The notes recall Guy Lombardo's popularity and Canada born musicians still with him since 1924. Charlie Barnet forecasts sweeter music amid war, while rumors link Eddie Duchin to a George Gershwin bio film. Ex-members of Duchin’s group include Lamour Langford and Baker.
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Santa to Visit Wesley Foundation Christmas Party
Santa Claus will visit Wesley Foundation's annual Christmas party for 26 underprivileged children of Kent today from 4 to 6 p m at the Methodist church. Mary Beth Nass, social service chairman, says a committee including Ray Deming Jerold Elliott Marjorie Fankhauser Jeanne Drenkhan Dorothy Mohr Marjorie Oaks Vivien Lanning Helen Reuter Carolyn Frye Anne Prosen Jeanne Claypoole Della Lanning and Sally Domer will assist in arrangements.
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Methodist Church
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Jerold Elliott
Marjorie Fankhauser
Jeanne Drenkhan
Dorothy Mohr
Marjorie Oaks
Vivien Lanning
Helen Reuter
Carolyn Frye
Anne Prosen
Jeanne Claypoole
Della Lanning
Sally Domer
Miss Nass
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