WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10.1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Red Nichols Records Bandsters'Sour Notes
"Bill, you hit a sour note."
"Aw, Red, that wasn't me. That was the bass fiddle."
"Tsk. Tsk. I'll show you."
That conversation has taken place numerous times in Red Nichols' orchestra rehearsals. No player likes to admit he struck a sour note; musicians just aren't built that way. But Red Nichols has an ingenuous scheme for curing his musicians of such inhibitions. Nichols Uses Portable Recorder
Nichols simply carries a portable recording machine t orehearsal and uses it. When he tells Bill, the clarinet player, that he hit a sour note, Red can back up his statement. He always plays the record back to the musicians when the number is completed and the clarinet player—or any other musician—is shown where he is wrong.
The recording machine is also brought into use when broadcasting. Its use, Nichols contends, enbles the orchestra to achieve "balance." For instance, the orchestra sitting behind a vocalist has
no idea how the music sounds out front, but when the men hear the record, they know immediately. Has Own Ideas on "Swing"
About swing, Nichols has some definite opinions. He believes that the meaning of the word "swing" has changed in recent years to noisy jazz. Nichols contends that music doesn't have to be noisy to be "swing."
"I do not tax my instruments to their fullest range, nor do I think the best effects are obtained when the talent of the musicians is constantly under strain seeking sustained high notes. Music can be subdued and still swing," says Nichols.
War Briefs
Hit Juke Boxes
Washington—(UP)—Priorities director Donald M. Nelson today ordered sharp cuts in production of "juke boxes," and weighing, amusement and gaming machines, in order to conserve critical defense materials. Slot machines — commonly termed "one-arm-bandits" — will be entirely prohibited after Feb. 1.
Builds Air Shelter
Springfield, Mo. —(UP)— Gene Ginch, operator of a night club, believes in being prepared. Ginch announced today that he had conferred with an architect regarding the building of an air reid shelter in the cellar of his establishment.
His idea of swing music is music so rhythmical that your feet begin to move, yet that music is subdued enough to permit your partner to hear the invitation to dance. Red has been playing swing for fifteen years, startling with the "Five Pennies," a group which is featured in his larger dance orchestra today. He knows swing from the ground up.
Burn Jap House
Price, Utah — (UP) — A pair of 12-year old boys who sought to do their "patriotic duty" by setting fire to the house of a Japanese family, were sought by authorities here to v.
Police said five American-born Japanese children were saved from death when neighbors broke in the doors and rescued them. The boys were understood to have said they "only wanted to help their country."
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity presented an hour concert in the Auditorium of Frank Strong hall Sunday afternoon.
Kappa Alpha Psi Presents Concert
Prof. G. Criss Simpson of the School of Fine Arts gave an hour concert Sunday afternoon in Hoch auditorium.
Simpson Gives Organ Recital
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George Snyder Applies For Position As Chief of Police
George Snyder, who recently resigned as campus policeman, has applied for the position of chief of police in Lawrence, left open by the resignation of Jude Anderson on Monday.
The city council may discuss the appointment of the four candidates, including George, at a meeting tomorrow night. The appointment will be made by Mayor C. B. Russell, with the approval of the council.
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"What the stars wear before they wear it" is a phrase that concerns Dorothy Doran Williams, Hollywood costume designer for Paramount studios.
Miss Williams takes your picture and measurements, then paints you in water colors in an outfit that hasn't been made yet. That is, she would do all this for you if you were a movie star like Shirley Temple, Loretta Young, or Alice Faye.
Miss Williams' water color designs are now on exhibit in the department of design studio, 310 Frank Strong hall. Included in the exhibition are the original drawings of the costumes worn by Shirley Temple in the "Bluebird," Loretta Young in "Kentucky," and Alice Faye in "Cross-Country Air Race."
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(continued from page four) lege bands and musical organizations make promotional trips for public relations development for their school. I rather agreed that perhaps the basketball squad can do the same thing, although I still think the thing could be overdone.
"It is an educational program." Dr. Allen continued, "And I believe could not be criticized more than bringing the University band to Dodge City to play a concert."
K.U. History Club To Sponsor Film
The K.U. History Club is sponsoring the Granada's four-day run of the "Two-Faced Woman" in which Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas appear as the leading stars. Tickets for the attraction can be purchased from any History Club member.
"Two-Faced Woman" starts at the Granada today and will run thru Saturday evening. In this film, Garbo casts off the aloof and sophisticated air which has marked her in her pictures of the past, and assumes a "twin" role in order to regain the affections of her husband. Douglas, a New York publisher who has fallen into the hands of a beautiful authorress, Constance Bennett. Roland Young and Robert Sterling are among those in the supporting cast. The picture promises to be twice as hilarious as any in which Garbo has appeared previously. The production is released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Adv.
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