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Show 'ALL-AMERICA BAND IS LISTED BY LOUIS Louis Sobol, prominent Broadwar acrivener, ha taken over Walter VVineheU'a column during Illness of tbo Utter. By LOUIS SOBOL Album of Manhattan All-America Swing Band: Young F. R. Roosevelt Jr., telephoning from his school quarters in Charlottesville, Va., implored Meyer Davis, orchestra emir, to name the ideal swing band. Davis picked the following lineup Piano: Fats Waller; clarinet, Benny Goodman; also saxophone, Johnny Hodges; tenor sax. Chew Berry; violin, Joe Venuti; guitar, Dick McDonoughr trumpets," Roy Eldridge, Louis Armstrong. Bunny Berrigan; drums,' Jean Kruppa; vibraphone. vibra-phone. Lionel Hampton; trombones, Tommy Dorsey, Lawrence Brown; bans, Beverly Peer. Ladies and gents your first All-America All-America swing band and you ran have it! Hi(h Finance: It ha finally Hiwned upon us that Miss Ann Harding has something of a terrific ter-rific yen for her brand new hua-hand. hua-hand. Werner Janssen. . She has appointed him her business manager man-ager and when a film queen has a muaician as a manager that's mad love, my chickadees, In any language. The aesthetic Janssen is demsnding $110,000 per plo for La Harding'a graceful services. Recently, Re-cently, the lady was approached to dt a stage play. She referred the emissary to Husband-Manager Janesen, who stroked his chin gently, gent-ly, furrowed his brosd brow and in soft tones asked 20 per rent of the box office gross with a minimum nf t-'iono guarantee per week! (Average (Aver-age grosses last week of four leading lead-ing plays 17500). Library lmpreaalona Elsa Maxwell: Max-well: A lorgnette on copy of "Who's Who" next to a copy of "Social Reg-ilrr" Reg-ilrr" . . . Ernest Hemingwsyr A boxing glove on "How to Win Friends and Influence People" . . . Jimmy Durante: A plate of spaghetti spa-ghetti on "Cyrano De Bergerac" . . . Krnie Hoist: A baton on tha Blue Bonk . . . Tommy Manville: A copy of "Don Juan" next to an edition of "Dun sV Bradstreet" . . . Father Divine: A bank book on the Bible . . . Charlie McCarthy: A toothpick on a copy of College Humor . . . Kam Goldwyn: A megaphone on "The Comely of Errors" . . . nig Apple Stuff: Current nstional dance crate is the goofy routine known ss th Big Apple. (Claiming I to be Its creator is Billy Spivey who. as may have been reported before, tagged It after a sepian bistro bis-tro in Columbia, S. C. The night club where Caucasians gathered ! frequently on the balcony to watch the rotogravureans truckln' below was once a synagogue! |