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FIRST WITH THE LATEST,
WE GIVE YOU DANCELAND
MUSIC has picked itself a strong man. Joseph V. McKee, former mayor of New York, has been retained by the Music Publishers Protective Association to serve music in the same capacity as Judge Landis in baseball and Will Hays in the
movies. One of the first matters McKee took up was the code of fair trade practices which seeks to correct abuses of long standing in the industry, such as publishers paying orchestra leaders for plugs, for making special arrangements of their songs, etc. McKee is expected to crack down on these practices as well as talk turkey to infringers who make records of radio programs. Developments are awaited with interest.
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An epidemic of new bands is breaking out, seeming to
SECRETS BEFORE THEY'VE
EVEN BECOME WHISPERS
indicate that that corner to prosperity has been passed. Mario Braggiotti (of Fray and Braggiotti, piano team) has polished off a band that looks to be going places. Bert Block, whose cohorts Tommy Dorsey raided, is back with a new outfit. Harry Reser has taken unto himself a young, new bunch of musikers and discarded the Clicquot Club Eskimos which brought him fame. Jack Jenny (not Denny or Benny) has assembled a fine unit. Jack is considered one of the ace trombonists in the business.
You'd be surprised how sensitive most of the maestros are about their figures. Daily they consult their scales with apprehension. Glen Gray, who is six foot three, goes to the mat almost daily with a professional wrestler to keep down his poundage. As do most of the men in the band. Of course the classic examples in the reducing column are Paul Whiteman and Jacques Renard who took off huge slices of bulk by diet. Golf is by far the favorite method. Harry Sosnick is one of the few trying to put on weight. Eddy Duchin keeps lithe by his frequent and sweeping bows to the debs who frequent the Plaza. Hal Kemp by autographing photos, Frank Parker by playing polo, Benny Goodman by playing hot tunes, Dick Stabile on the rowing machine, Bob Crosby by taking frequent hot and cold baths. It's really a grim business. * * *
Although they all began by playing an instrument, the maestros who can keep it up and lead, too, are the exceptions. Did you know that Abe Lyman used to play drums, Rudy Vallee the sax, Paul Whiteman the viola, George Olsen the drums, Ozzie Nelson the sax, Guy Lombardo the fiddle, ditto Ben Bernie, Will (Continued an page 82)
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