Saturday, February 15, 1941
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Pae Seventeen
Saturday, February 1 5, 1941TH E MICHIGAN DAILY Paae Seventeen
In A World Full Of Woe, A J-Hop n
Clings To Its Age-Old Tradition
GLORIFY THE MALE! Benny Keeps
Clarinet Warm
In The Cold
$500 Instrument Has
To Be Inspected Twice
Weekly For Benny Goodman
J-Hop! What underlying forces lie open to a man of the cloth, Valentine
in this word that can rivet twelve still decided to make himself known
hundred males into midnight blue to posterity as the patron of petting,
pillories for half a day? America is the apostle of Aphrodite. He must
straining her two-way stretch to pro- have seen this world where the Bene-
duce guns and planes, and here we dectine Order means only that every-
have the spectacle of twelve hundred body is ready for cordials. If a man
able-bodied males using their inborn can be canonized and commercialized
skill and manual dexterity to mace- in the name of romance, then this
rate a carnation stem into a button- pointless orgy is a little more under-
hole. It just doesn't add up. standable.
This Valentine's Day business Some narrow-minded people read-
might have something to do with ing this article may have gained the
it. Saint Benedict founded a monas- impression that the writer is trying
tic order, St. Thomas Aquinas wrote to debunk J-Hop. If they haven't,
"Summa Theologica," but why is this they should race over to City Hall and
Saint Valentine remembered? With explain, in flawless Sundanese, their
all the salvation and proselytizing whereabouts during the alien regis-
tration program. Debunking J-Hop is
a big job, especially when active sup-
porters are even less visible than the
Michigan co-eds present tonight.
Eugene Debs crying out in the wild-
erness of pre-World War I jingoism;
Sacco and Vanzetti beating their fists
against the adament wall of New
England justice, Wendell Willkie car-
rying on through a hail of wastebas-
kets-you are not alone. Our efforts
have been futile and the twenty-
four hundred will continue their ban-
al amusement. They don't know the
fun they'd be having tonight at a
nameless local tavern if their appli-
cations hadn't gone through.
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A Couple of
Big Men on Campus
Looking Like Big
Men on Campus
in cliod ej /rom
Hf4RRY
SUFFRIITS
1arjt So,
BLAZ LUCAS . . . particularly
smooth in new fly-front natural
covert topcoat . . . set-in sleeves
. . . $24.75 . . . 3-button natural
covert suit with longer, casually
draped jacket . . . $30 . . . covert
shade header . . . plenty of brim
... $5 . . . knit tie . .. horizontal
stripes . . . a buck . . . Chester-
fields . . 15c a pack.
DON CANHAM .. . mighty sharp
in hounds tooth check sport jacket
$11.50 .. .bark brown covert
slax ... 181/2" bottoms... .$7.50
fingertip rainjacket . .. erster
shade ... zip closing ... handy ...
$8.85 . . . bark brown hat. . . $5
... maroon silk knit tie.. ..$1 .. .
full brogues . . . $7.85 . . . no
cigarette (Don's in training).
Taking care of Benny Goodman's
clarinet, sheltering it from cold
which might crack it, making sure
that it always gets to broadcasts.
I dance and concert halls in time for
the maestro to blow it for the na-
tion's swing fans-that's the job
of a fellow known as "Pee-Wee"
Monte, Goodman's keeper of the clar-
inets.
Without Pee-Wee, Goodman would
still be a great clarinetist, but he'd
probably show up at most of his
jobs without an instrument. For he
has always been a little absent-
minded about carrying a clarinet
around or looking out for it between
sessions. And that's why he leaves
all the worrying to Pee-Wee, who has
no cinch job.
After every broadcast, concert,
stage, or dance appearance, it's Mon-
te's task to take Goodman's clari-
net apart, wrap it carefully in chai-
mois and lay it in its red plush case.
From then until the next night,
that $500 clarinet with the solid-sil-
ver keys becomes Pee-Wee's respon-
sibility. If the weather is cold, he has
to carry its case under his coat to
keep the instrument warm. Sudden
changes in temperature might crack
the delicate wood.
On the eventful night of the first
Goodman concert at Carnegie Hall,
Pee-Wee let the heater warm his car
for half an hour before bringing the
clarinet outdoors. Part of Pee-Wee's
job as general custodian is to take
his ward to an expert repair man
twice a week for a thorough checking.
A faulty A-flat key, sticking when it
should open, might easily spell sour
notes for the whole nation.
As a reward for faithful service as
clarinet custodian, Monte was recent-
ly promoted to band manager--which
is more glory than pay.
Krupa Tricks
Keep Audience
In Hysterics
Once there was a little lad by the
name of Gene Krupa (no doubt you've
heer'd tell on him), and he was
scheduled to play his little orchestra
(it ain't little, and anyway we for-
got to mention that that is his busi-
ness, music) at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
which is the home of the University
of Michigan. But that is all old stuff
to you rug-cutters, for it seems that
you are the University of Michigan.
Anyway, as we were saying, this
Krupa man has a most darndest de-
sire to please his audience of dancers,
and he always seems to go over big,
in spite of the fact that he doesn't
use any tricks-funny hats, curious
uniforms, and such like stage props.
He gets his results, it seems, from
some darn good drum beatin', which
we know will go over with the Univer-
sity of Michigan intellectuals big be-
cause they don't give his records
much rest on those there juke boxes
stationed in every cubby-hole in Ann
Arbor.
And say, besides this super deluxe
drummin,' Krupa's hauling along
with his outfit tall doggone good mu-
sicians, inrthemselves) a couple of
warblers, Sene Daye and Howard Du-
Laney, who have made names for
themselves in the dance world of
late.
But to get back to those drums,
boy, how that guy can play! We know
because we have spent a number of
hard-earned nickels on the lad's rec-
ords, and we have heard him on the
radio loads of times. From all reports,
too, the boy makes his audience laugh
plenty heartily when he puts on his
show, and people get quite a kick
out of the vocal arrangements he has
given the orchestra en masse.
Anyway, Ann Arbor can call itself
pretty lucky that an artist like Krupa
will come here and play.
Rockefeller foundation has given
$25,000 for maintenance in the com-
ing year of the teaching and research
program of the University of Hel-
sinki, Finland.
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