TEMPO di JAZZ

Radio Record, 31 July 1936, Page 10

TEMPO di JAZZ

. A HE latest all-coloured show on the smoke-laden ether of Old England has an appropriate name, if nothing else-"Tone and Colour." , RAY NOBLE’S' Band earned £1500 a week on its tour in the United States, RIAN, LAWRENCE was once (so rumour hath it), a child prodigy in Australia, with velvet knickers, white blouse, big black bow ‘n’ everything.

A NEW publication, "Rhythm on Record," containing a list of all dance records made between 1905 and 1935, is announced in London, PHDRE is talk of forming a Rhythm Club in Wellington. The idea is so good that any delay is inexcusable. Akt RALSTON, sax man of Casa Loma, when laid up in hospital for weeks With nothing to do, learned the bassoon to pass away the time. What the other patients thought, said, and did, is not on record. Art hopes to popularise "the comedian of the orchestra" with dance bands. LEAN, fair, curly-headed chorister in a Canadian church has become a world-famed crooner -the young man who discarded the surplice for the dress-suit is no other than the popular Les Allen. (GEORGE POSFORD’S new work, "Transatlantic Rhapsody,’ composed to celebrate the maiden voyage of the "Queen Mary," describes music-ally-Scene at the Dock, Open Sea, Conflict between Great Forces of Sea and the Iingines, Life Aboard the Ship, Night in Mid-Ocean. Geraldo and his Orchestra broadcast the work the night the vessel sailed, ‘