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FACING THE
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By KEN ALDEN
WEDDING bells rang out for blonde Marion Hutton, Glenn Miller's vivacious singer. She married Jack Philbin, personal manager of Johnny Long's orchestra.
Sorrow has come to batoneer Little Jack Little. His wife and personal manager, Tea Little, died of meningitis of the brain, while Jack was playing in Kansas City.
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Remember I told you about Bobby Byrne's fight against appendicitis? Well, the illness finally caught up with him and he was rushed to the hospital during an engagement at the New York Strand. Guest bandsmen pinch-hit for the youthful trombonist while he was recovering from the operation.
Herbie Kay, orchestra leader and former husband of Dorothy Lamour, was secretly married to Margaret Elizabeth Rinehart, daughter of a prominent Tulsa, Oklahoma family.
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Jimmy Dorsey and his arranger, Toots Camarata, have written a sequel to "Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga." It's called "She's the Queen of the Conga, But—."
# * * Members of cooperative bands like Lou Breese, Casa
Loma, Woody Herman, Bob Crosby, and Mitchell Ayres will get a break if they're conscripted, because their dividends will continue while they're in the army.
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Enoch Light, after fourteen weeks in a hospital, has recovered sufficiently to start reorganizing his band and have it working by December.
* * * COMINGS AND GOINGS: Josef Cherniavsky out of
WLWL as musical director, with Milton Weiner succeeding the Russian . . . Jack Jenney has dropped his band and joined Artie Shaw . . . Woody Herman is due back at the Hotel New Yorker soon . . . Sammy Kaye is back on Victor records after a stint at Varsity . . . Teddy Wilson, pianist, has joined Benny Goodman's new band . . . Duke Ellington has gone to the coast to make a picture. So has Tommy Dorsey. He'll appear in Paramount's "Las Vegas Nights" . . . You can buy Lanny Ross singing on Victor records now . . . Ray Noble will be east in 1941 . . . Butch Stone, who used to sing with Van Alexander's band, has joined Jack Teagarden . . . Will Bradley brings swing music to the conservative Hotel Biltmore in New York for the first time. (Continued on page 62)