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“Nothing to say.”

December 3, 2021
1941


“He Never Said a Mumblin’ Word”; Golden Gate Quartet; Okeh (6529); Publication date: December 3, 1941





The New York Times, December 3, 1941 (Unidentified photographer)


“Moses Smote the Waters”; Golden Gate Quartet; Columbia (36937); December 3, 1941





PM, December 3, 1941, p.12


“I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)”; Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra; Helen O’Connell; Duke Ellington; Paul Webster; Decca (4103 B); December 3, 1941




So that there would be no hysterical outbursts in court, the families of the condemned men and their relatives were ruled out of the courtroom. They met in the corridor, however. Mrs. Weiss stands with her friends folded. Mrs. Buchalter is the woman at the right. The woman with her hand to her face was not identified. (Unidentified photographer)

Photographers caught up with Lepke leaving the courtroom. Weiss hides under his hat.

PM Photos

PM, December 3, 1941, p.12 (Unidentified photographers)


“Bones, Bones, Bones (Ezekiel In The Valley)”; Golden Gate Quartet; Wilson; Owens; Riddick; Frederick; Columbia (36937); December 3, 1941

(80 years ago today…)

“…’available’ for the death house…”

December 1, 2021
1941


“My Fate Is In Your Hands”; Earl Hines Trio; Earl Hines; Al Casey; Oscar Pettiford; Waller; Razaf; Signature (SI-1-2B); 1941





The New York Times, December 1, 1941 (Unidentified photographer)

LEPKE’S FATE PUT UP TO PRESIDENT BY DEATH VERDICT


“My Fate Is In Your Hands”; Rodman Lewis; Razaf; Waller; Perfect (12584B); 1930


PM, December 1, 1941, p. 1

GOOD NEWS

PM, December 1, 1941, p. 1


PM, December 1, 1941, p. 11 (Unidentified photographer)

A Convicted Killer:

Louis (Lepke) Buchalter will be sentenced tomorrow to die in the electric chair for murder. He was convicted yesterday morning. But he says he’ll fight to the highest courts. He’s shown leaving court.

Photo by Wide World

PM, December 1, 1941, p. 11



PM, December 1, 1941, p. 11

Lepke to Fight Death Sentence

PM, December 1, 1941, p. 11


PM, December 1, 1941, p. 11

Harlem Cop Shoots Boy as a Burglar

PM, December 1, 1941, p. 11




PM, December 1, 1941, p. 12

People Aren’t Really Bad, But They Get Black Eyes

PM, December 1, 1941, p. 12


“What Is This Thing Called Love?”; Lena Horne; Lou Bring; Ned Freeman; Cole Porter; RCA Victor (27820-B); December 1941

Spark Harmony Framed Revenge

November 27, 2021
1941, PM



“FRAMED”; The Robins; Leiber; Stoller; Spark (107); October 1954


The New York Times, November 27, 1941


“Revenge”; Texas Jim Robertson and The Panhandle Punchers; Jenny Lou Carson; RCA Victor (21-0130-B); 1949


The New York Times, November 27, 1941

Lepke Was Framed, His Counsel Asserts

Defense Says Rubin, Seeking Revenge Planned Murder



“Revenge”; Henry Therrein; Akst; Lewis; Young; Harmony (712-H); 1928

Now the Japanese Know: U.S.A. Won’t Sell Out China


“Ev’rything I Love”; Benny Goodman and his Orchestra; Peggy Lee; Cole Porter; Okeh (6516); Publication date: November 27, 1941


PM, November 27, 1941

His Master Died in this room which was shattered by the blast of an illuminating-gas explosion last night, but a black shepherd dog Freca, was uninjured by either gas or the explosion. Police say Thomas Quinn, 31, a commercial artist, was found lying in front of a gas stove with all jets open in his west 26th Street apartment, but failed to make either a suicide or accident listing. Freca hid behind a small piano.

PM, November 27, 1941
PM photos by Weegee



“Just A Man And His Dog”; Red Foley; The Cumberland Valley Boys; Jack Rollins; Audrey Ganum; Decca (46291); December 18, 1947


Weegee, PM, November 27, 1941



“Lonesome Dog Blues”; Lightning Hopkins; Hopkins; RPM (346); September 1951

“Don’t look now… But I think there’s a new exhibit!”

November 25, 2021
1941, PM


“Time After Time”; Ernest Tubb; Jimmie Short; Leon Short; Decca (6023 A); November 17, 1941

“Don’t look now… But I think there’s a new exhibit!”


“I’ve Really Learned A Lot”; Ernest Tubb; Ernest Tubb; Decca (6076 B); November 17, 1941

No Handstands At Met Opening

By Henry Simon

PM, November 25, 1941, p.22


“I Hate to See You Go”; Ernest Tubb; Homer Hargroves; Decca (6084 A); November 17, 1941

This season the opera opening was not all high hat; there was a showing of gold braid and a generous turnout of plain khaki. The fancy-peaked cap above is a captain’s, the other just a lieutenant’s.

PM, November 25, 1941, p.22


“More Than You Know”; Count Basie and his Orchestra; Lynne Sherman; Eliscu; W. Rose; Youmans; Winter; Okeh (6584); November 17, 1941

Opera patronesses seldom check their tiaras with the management. Here, at their table in the Opera Bar (only theater bar permitted in N.Y.) are, left to right, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Lady Decies, Mrs. Leonora H. Warner.

PM, November 25, 1941, p.22


“You Don’t Know What Love Is”; Earl Hines and his Orchestra; Billy Eckstein; Don Raye; Gene dePaul; Bluebird (B-11394-A); November 17, 1941

The cops keep a watchful eye on the standees. Last night a Mr. Burke (above) boned up on his libretto while waiting to buy a standee ticket.

The onlookers flanking the main entrance put on the dog in their own fashion. Lena Penola’s pooch is named Buddy. Photos by Ray Platnick,…

PM, November 25, 1941, p.22


“You May Have Your Picture”; Ernest Tubb; Decca (6040-B); November 17, 1941

“You’ve answered your question”

November 23, 2021
1943, PM, Uncategorized


“Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu”; Vincent; Smith; Huey Smith and The Clowns; Ace (530); June 1957


PM, November 23, 1941, p. 43

What To Do If We Get A Real Flu Epidemic


“Suspician”; Jo Stafford; The Stalighters; Paul Weston’s Mountain Boys; Les Paul; Foster Carling; Capitol (15068); 1948



PM, November 23, 1941, pp. 44-45

‘SUSPICION’

With Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine
An Alfred Hitchcock Melodrama


“Eye To Eye”; MR. Blues Carson and His Orchestra; Hi-Lo (1420); June 1953


“Half A Photograph”; Kay Starr; Harold Stanley; Bob Russell; Harold Mooney; Capitol (C 2464); April 15, 1953


PM, November 23, 1941, pp. 48-49 (…a photo by Gene Smith…)

Catching the Eye Of Man in Street

People Who Took These Photos Weren’t ‘Arty’ They had Their Lenses on the World


“Murder in the First Degree”; St. Louis Jimmy; Burton & Oden; Parrot (823); April 1956


PM, November 23, 1941, p. 64

Smart Burton Turkus Battles Murder, Inc


“It’s Murder”; Lil Armstrong And Her Swing Orchestra; Lil Armstrong; Buck; Armstrong; Decca (1182 A); 1936

“The Ragamuffins of New York…”

November 21, 2021
1941, PM


“Sugar Babe Blues”; Roosevelt Sykes (The Honey Dripper) [1906–1983]; Skyes; Columbia (37457); Publication date: November 21, 1941


PM, November 21, 1941, p.12 (Photos by Gene Badger, PM)

New York’s Thanksgiving: A Big Parade, and Turkey…


“Training Camp Blues”; Roosevelt Sykes (The Honey Dripper) [1906–1983]; Sykes; Columbia (37457); November 21, 1941


PM, November 21, 1941, p.13 (Photos by M Engel, PM)

… And the Ragamuffins, Featuring National Defense

The ragamuffins of New York capered as usual on Thanksgiving Day. Those pictured on this page were part of a Madison Square Boys’ Club parade on First Avenue. Many carried spot-news banners, an innovation encouraged by the Club as a substitute for traditional ragamuffin street begging…


“Ragamuffin Romeo”; Paul Whiteman [1890-1967] and His Orchestra; Vocal by Jeanie Lang (Mary Eugenia Wirick) [1911-1993]; Wayne & De Casta; Columbia (CB 88); ca. 1930


PM, November 21, 1941, p.22 (Unidentified photographer)

Hitchcock’s Latest Masterpiece… A Melodrama of the Mind

By Cecelia Ager

The film ideal is a blend of story-telling, writing, musical scoring, photographic composition, acting, developing characterization, cutting and direction – co-ordinated to achieve dramatic impact, an impact indigenous to the movies, impossible to any other art form…
PM, November 21, 1941, p.22


“The Finger of Suspicion Points at You”; Bonnie Lou [1924-2015]; Mann; Lewis; Parlophone (R 3989); 1954

“Look into those eyes…”

November 13, 2021
1941


“Somebody Nobody Loves”; Benny Goodman and his Orch.; Peggy Lee; S. Miller; Okeh (6562); Publication date: November 13, 1941


Lepke and His Pals Feared Reles’s Testimony…

And here’s the grinning Lepke himself – Louis Buchalter, born 44 years ago in the city’s slums. He’s under a federal narcotic sentence that would keep him in jail 14 years… Lepke is blamed for 14 murders or more; Reles was to have testified against him. The particular murder for which Lepke is on trial is that of Joseph Rosen, candy-store owner. Rosen had been a trucking boss in the garment center. O’Dwyer says Lepke ordered the job much as you would order the cook to kill a chicken for dinner.

… Until Death Mysteriously Removed One

And this is where it ended, outside the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, where Reles has been awaiting his chance to testify against Lepke. We don’t really know what happened. Some reports say Reles was trying to escape – with only a couple of sheets to let him down down the sixth floor widow (circle) to a roof overlooking the ocean. Reporters were told that a window on the floor below was partly open, and that the sill and his shoes bore marks indicating he tried to get in. Some authorities said he had been ill, that he might have committed suicide.



PM, November 13, 1941 (Unidentified photographers)


“How Long Has This Been Going On!;” Benny Goodman and his Orch.; Peggy Lee; I. Gershwin; G. Gershwin; Okeh (6544); November 13, 1941







The New York Times, November 13, 1941 (Unidentified photographer)


“Somebody Else is Taking My Place”; Benny Goodman and his Orchestra; Peggy Lee; D. Howard; Ellsworth; Morgan; Columbia (38198); November 13, 1941


Binghamton, November 13, 1941 (Unidentified photographer)


The New York Times, November 13, 1941 (Unidentified photographer)


“Why Don’t You Do Right”; Benny Goodman and his Orchestra; Peggy Lee; McCoy; Columbia (38198); November 13, 1941

(“…We don’t really know what happened…” PM, November 13, 1941.)

“The Colors of a Nation at Peace on Another Armistice Day”

November 11, 2021
1940


“Magic Carpet”; Eddie Durham And His Band; Eddie Durham; Decca (8529 B); November 11, 1940



PM, November 11, 1940, p. 8 (Robert Moses’s Super-Roads)


“Fare Thee Honey Fare Thee Well”; Eddie Durham And His Band; Lem Johnson; Alston; Decca (8529 A); November 11, 1940


PM, November 11, 1940, p. 8 (Frank Lloyd Wright at MoMA)

Bomb-Prof City.. Wright Has It


“You Didn’t Steal That Kiss”; Orrin Tucker and his Orchestra; Bonnie Baker; Owens; Columbia (35914); November 11, 1940


PM, November 11, 1940, p. 19, (photo by Gene Badger)

The Colors of a Nation at Peace on Another Armistice Day


“PINEY BROWN BLUES”; JOE TURNER And His Fly Cats; Oran “Hot Lips” Page; Pete Johnson; John Collins; Abe Bolar; A. G. Godley; Joe Turner; Decca (18121 B); November 11, 1940


PM, November 11, 1940, p. 2


“627 STOMP”; PETE JOHNSON’S BAND; Don Stovall; Don Byas; Eddie Barefield; Oran “Hot Lips” Page; Pete Johnson; John Collins; Abe Bolar; A. G. Godley; Dave Dexter; Decca (18121 A); November 11, 1940

“I told the truth about unions and the mob.”

November 11, 2021
1941


“I’M READING YOUR LETTER AGAIN, DEAR”; BOB ATCHER and BONNIE BLUE EYES; Jenkins’ Okeh (06495); November 11, 1941




The New York Times, November 11, 1941

LEPKE ‘FINGER MAN’
HUNTS JOB IN VAIN

Paul Berger Accuses Unions
of Barring Him From Work
for ‘Telling the Truth’


“LET’S START LIFE ALL OVER”; BOB ATCHER and BONNIE BLUE EYES; L. White; Okeh (06495); November 11, 1941




PM, November 11, 1941

Skeletons Dance At Lepke Trial


“Walking the Floor Over You”; Bob Atcher; Ernest Tubb; Columbia (37432); November 11, 1941


Washington Experts Feel War With Japan Is Definitely Possible Before Christmas


“SWEETHEARTS OR STRANGERS”; BOB ATCHER and BONNIE BLUE EYES; J. Davis; Columbia (37432); November 11, 1941

23 Years Have Passed, It’s Armistice Day Again


“Modern Design;” Johnny Messner And His Orchestra; Johnny Messner; Sammy Kaye; Ron Perry; Stanley Broadhurst; Decca (4086 B); November 11, 1941


PM, November 11, 1941

745 Moved to New Prison And Not One Was Lost


“Gotta Find My Baby”; Doctor Clayton; Joe Clayton; Bluebird (B-8901-B); November 11, 1941

“All Out for Weegee”

October 4, 2021
1941, exhibition, Photo League, PM


“Take It Off The ‘E’ String”; Peter Piper and his Orchestra; Cahn; Akst; November 1943


PM, September 10, 1941, p.21

All Out for Weegee

Dear Editor:

Due to popular demand, Weegee’s Exhibit Murder Is My Business will continue to Sept. 13, at the Photo League, 31 E/ 21st St., from 2 to 10 p.m. daily and everybody is welcome.

Here are some comments on Weegee’s show in the comments book:

“Worth the price of admission.” P.S. admission is free.

“I’d rather see Gypsy Rose strip.”

“For people with strong constitutions and weak minds.”

New York

PHOTO LEAGUE
PM, September 10, 1941, p.21


“He’s The Best In The Business”; Terry Timmons; Charles Singleton; Howard Biggs’s Orchestra; RCA Victor (20-5227); 1953