Swinging Stars 1935 | 20240122

After the monster film congress in Berlin, a swinging Saturday night 23 March 1935 in the Amsterdam Carlton Hotel at The First Dutch Film Ball (Het Eerste Nederlandsche Filmbal) organized by the dutch film world (with Loet Barnstein, …Ehrlich…Hamburger…Willy Mullens…Max Tak…Abraham Tuschinski…Kor Postma) both to celebrate the film world and especially to collect money for their foundation ‘Bio Vakantieoord’ ( Cine Holiday Resort ) — founded in 1927 by the cinema owner Abraham Tuschinski and the Dutch Cinema Association (Nederlandse Bioscoopbond; NBB; association of cinemas , distributors and producers) to facilitate holidays in their seaside ‘castle’ on the dutch coast, each month for 90 poor lower class children living in the big cities like Amsterdam. At that time, also , twice a year (the Christmas and Easter weeks), money was collected for that Bio Holiday Resort foundation in the dutch cinemas, but because of the Great Depression donations are shifting from ‘silver’ to nickel …copper . The fundraising went hand in hand with promotional films made by the Dutch Profilti and Polygoon cinema newsreel companies . Next week people would watch this Polygoon news in the cinemas. The newspapers wrote, those present will be filmed, and if allowed by the police , the film will be shown the same night, and many movie and theater stars, filmschlagers, to be present … Harry Baur, Henriette Davids, Jopie Koopmans, Kid Johnson, Reri, Johan Kaart, Frits van Dongen, Henk Alsem.
Dutch news bulletin De groene Amsterdammer had a picture (collage?) with prominent guests (or impersonations?) : Gloria Swanson, Max Tak, Jean Harlow, Loet C. Barnstijn, Norma Shearer, Dr. M. de Hartog, Lupe Velez, Louis Davids, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Sylvain Poons, Myrna Loy, Mariene Dietrich, Wethouder Boissevain, Kor Postma, Theo Ketelaar. And a dutch cinematography news bulletin reported ‘the expected foreign stars were conspicuous by their absence’.

Film edited from dutch Polygoontoon (Polygoon Hollands Nieuws) cinema news reel week 13, 1935 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Jazzy Film Ball 1936 | 20240121 | Miracles•Media

Het Eerste Nederlandsche Filmbal. De Gooi- en Eemlander 13-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011171806:mpeg21:a0107

Een filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk, 19-03-1935. | Delpher | URL https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB15:000891066:mpeg21:a00076

Het eerste filmbal in Nederland. Delftsche courant 19-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB08:000076473:mpeg21:a0043

Het eerste Nedrlandse filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk 25-03-1935. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB15:000891071:mpeg21:a00067

Nieuw weekblad voor de cinematografie, jrg 13, 1935, no. 26, 29-03-1935 | URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMEYE02:001535013:00039

De groene Amsterdammer, jrg 59, 1935, no. 3016, 23-03-1935 URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB30:021531012:00014

Jazzy Film Ball 1936 | 20240121

‘Everything’ song with movie stars Dolly Haas, Pierre Blanchard and dancing star imitators Saturday night 21 March 1936 in the Amsterdam Carlton Hotel at the second annual ‘film ball’ organized since 1935 by the dutch film world both to celebrate and especially to collect money for their foundation ‘Bio Vakantieoord’ ( Cine Holiday Resort ) — founded in 1927 by the cinema owner Abraham Tuschinski and the Dutch Cinema Association (Nederlandse Bioscoopbond; NBB; association of cinemas , distributors and producers) to facilitate holidays in their seaside ‘castle’ on the dutch coast, each month for 90 poor lower class children living in the big cities like Amsterdam. At that time, also , twice a year, money was collected for that Bio Holiday Resort foundation in the dutch cinemas . The fundraising went hand in hand with promotional films made by the Dutch Profilti and Polygoon cinema newsreel companies . Next week people would watch this Polygoon news in the cinemas.

Film edited from dutch Polygoontoon (Polygoon Hollands Nieuws) cinema news reel week 13, 1936 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Filmbal Carlton. De Zaanlander 14-03-1936. Delpher | URL
https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMGAZS01:000093042:mpeg21:a00044

Voor het Bio-vacantieoord. Algemeen Handelsblad
18-03-1936. URL https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010664659:mpeg21:a0209

Een filmbal in Carlton. Het Volk, 19-03-1935. | Delpher | URL https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB15:000891066:mpeg21:a00076

Bio en de Bioscopen. URL https://www.biovakantieoord.nl/nl/over-ons/bio-en-de-bioscopen

Nederlands(ch)e Bioscoopbond. Eye. URL https://filmdatabase.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/film-history/article/nederlandsche-bioscoopbond

Turn .. “Draaien” .. Filmland 1934 | 20170724 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2017/07/24/turn-draaien-filmland-1934/

Breaking News – Polygoon sound film David Hamburger 1931 | 20190826 | Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg•com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2019/08/26/breaking-news-polygoon-sound-film-david-hamburger-1931/

Blackout…Johnny and Jones 1940 | 20240118

In 1940, the dutch teen idols Johnny and Jones, even though they were Jews, were able to continue performing under the Nazi occupation without too many problems.
The Amsterdam duo sang jazzy Dutch songs with a mock American accent and a parody of current events.

Blackout means black!

July 1940 Johnny and Jones sang a parody on the Blackout , the dutch song ‘Maak het donker in het donker’ (make it dark in the dark).

Later during World War 2, in 1943, they were deported to the Nazi death camps. They died of exhaustion in the last days of the war in 1945 (see Notes).

Notes

Swing & Hot – Johnny and Jones 1938 | 20240114 | Miracles•Media | @michelvanderburg | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2024/01/14/swing-hot-johnny-and-jones-1938-20240114/

Still image in film : Poster for the single ‘Maak het donker in het donker’.

Lyrics ‘Maak het donker in het donker’ | Johnny and Jones (1940)

De overheid heeft het publiek bevolen
Als het donker is dan moet het donker zijn !
Er mag geen enkel licht naar buiten schijnen
Doe verduisteringspapier voor je gordijn
Anders staan ze ’s avonds aan je bel te bellen
En dan komt de luchtbescherming je vertellen :

Refrein:
Maak het donker, maak het donker in het donker
Ook al gaan de sterren door met hun geflonker
Ik loop langs de huizenkant
Met mijn luchtbeschermingsband
Een lantaren in mijn hand
Om te kijken waar iets brandt
Houdt dus rekening met de verduisteringswensen
Maak het donker, reuze donker beste mensen !
Refrein

Het blokhoofd van blok zeven uit wijk negen
Zag de dochter van het wijkhoofd uit blok tien
Met een rood hoofd kwam hij blokhoofd negen tegen,
Hij zei hoofd, heb jij het wijkhoofd ook gezien ?
Ik heb in het hoofd gezet het wijkhoofd te gaan vragen ,
Of die wijkhoofd-(griet/strike?) mijn blokhoofdnaam wil dragen : Refrein

Van Zanten zag een meisje in het duister,
Zij was slank gevormd en toch niet dik van lijn.
Hij dacht, dit is de jonkvrouw mijner dromen,
Binnenkort zal zij mevrouw Van Zanten zijn.
In de duisternis vroeg hij haar om een kusje,
Flip van Zanten zei zij toen, ik ben toch je zusje !
Refrein

Music : Maak het donker in het donker | Text & Music by Johnny and Jones (1940). Recorded in Vara-studio, Hilversum, 19 july 1940. DH2051. (Varagram 7175). | Wikimedia Commons

Film (image) : edited from Polygoon-Profilti cinema news reel week 36, September 1940 (under nazi rule) | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Rumba Dance | 20240117

Rumba in 1932 with the dutch bandleader and jazz pianist Ernst van’t Hoff and his Virginians orchestra, and the dutch dance teachers Cor Klinkert & Liesje Santen. Including an introduction of this new fashion dance in Holland by Cor Klinkert — shifted to the end in this film.

Notes

In 1940, after the Netherlands became Nazi-occupied territory, Ernst van’t Hoff was ordered to start a big band to play state-approved dance music, but he played some jazz anyway, recording songs such as “Pennsylvania 6-5000” and “In the Mood”. He recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and played at the Delphi Palast in Berlin, but in 1942 he was chastened by the Sicherheitsdienst for playing degenerate music. He was repeatedly taken into custody by the Gestapo and eventually, in April 1944, was dismissed from his post and moved to Belgium.

Ernst van ‘t Hoff | Wikipedia | URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_van_%27t_Hoff

Ernst Van ‘t Hoff and His Hot Wartime Dance Band (2017) by Anton and Erin Garcia-Fernandez | The Vintage Bandstand | URL http://vintagebandstand.blogspot.com/2017/07/ernst-van-t-hoff-and-his-hot-wartime.html

Film edited from dutch Polygoon Hollands Nieuws cinema news reel week 2, 1932 | Sound & Vision (Open Images).

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Swing & Hot – Johnny and Jones 1938 | 20240114

Johnny and Jones – Mijnheer Dinges weet niet wat Swing is – URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxMQtbdZ26fS4zcluq6fT7NlTbbpfuxpcx

‘Swing’ by jazz duo Johnny and Jones in 1938 with their biggest hit , the dutch song “Mijnheer Dinges weet niet wat Swing is”
…Mister Dingus doesn’t know what Swing and Hot (jazz) is…he’s a composer and teacher with a problem : his students skip class, he thinks jazz is banal.

“Two Kids and a Guitar”

The Amsterdam duo sang jazzy Dutch songs with a mock American accent and a parody of current events. They were the first teen idols in Holland and often on the dutch radio in the 1930s …before World War 2.

Nazi victims

Because of their Jewish origins, both ‘Johnny’ (Salomon Meijer Kannewasser, born 1916 and called Max) and his second cousin, partner, ‘Jones’ (Arnold Siméon van Wesel, born Amsterdam 1918 and called Nol) were arrested together with their wives in 1943, taken to the Westerbork transit camp, and deported Sep 4, 1944 first to the Theresienstadt camp, next the Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Ohrdruf and Bergen-Belsen camps. They died of exhaustion in the last days of the war in 1945.

Notes

Mijnheer Dinges weet niet wat Swing is | Two Kids and a Guitar | Johnny and Jones (1938). Lyrics from Joop de Leur. Recorded in Casino Hamdorf, Laren, Holland, November 1938. Label: Panachord (78 rpm). # H 1058 (Am 546-1). URL https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxMQtbdZ26fS4zcluq6fT7NlTbbpfuxpcx

Over Salomon Meijer Kannewasser | Joods Monument | URL https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/515257/about-salomon-meijer-kannewasser

Lyrics

Dinges, oh Dinges
Dinges, oh Dinges
Meneer Dinges die is dol op componeren
Hij zit eeuwig met zijn neus in de muziek
Jongelieden die bij hem piano leren
Houden zich na de eerste les een tijdje ziek
Want hun leraar heeft een kwaal
Hij vindt jazzmuziek banaal
Meneer Dinges weet niet wat swing is
Hij weet niet wat saxofoon voor een ding is
Omdat zijn radio kapot is
Wat voor de buren een genot is
Weet die Dinges niet wat swing of hot is
Op een dag belde aan Dinges’ deur de wasman
Die zei meneer er staat muziek op uw manchet
Hou hem hier of stuur hem Theo Uden Marsman
Maar meneer Dinges antwoordde toen zeer ontzet
Man, ga uit mijn trapportaal
In mijn huis geen jazz-schandaal
Meneer Dinges weet niet wat swing is
Hij weet niet wat saxofoon voor een ding is
Omdat zijn radio kapot is
Wat voor de buren een genot is
Weet die Dinges niet wat swing of hot is
Meneer Dinges maakte een grote ouverture
Met een slotkoor, de finale stond in mol
Toen het klaar was speelde Pietje van de buren
De compositie dreunde in hot style door zijn bol
Toen viel hij flauw op 1 crapaud (het kunnen er ook twee geweest zijn) En Johnny and Jones zongen door de radio
Meneer Dinges weet niet wat swing is
Hij weet niet wat saxofoon voor een ding is
Omdat zijn radio kapot is
Wat voor de buren een genot is
Weet die Dinges niet wat swing of hot is
Domme Dinges
Oh, domme Dinges
Weet jij nu nog niet wat jazz voor een ding is
Als jij je goed wil amuseren
Moet je de hi-de-ho studeren
Meneer Dinges, probeer de swing ‘s
Dinges, oh Dinges
Dinges, oh Dinges.

Author: Johnny en Jones/ Joop de Leur
Composer: Johnny en Jones/ Joop de Leur
Publisher: Van Gool & Grünfeld Theaterprodukties
Source: https://muzikum.eu/nl/tip-top/meneer-dinges-songtekst

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‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland | 20231123

‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland

American saxophonist Coleman Hawkins announces and plays – accompanied by Leo de la Fuente on piano – on his tenor saxophone ‘I wished that I were twins’.

In 1934, Coleman Hawkins left the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and Amerika, moved to Europe, and joined the Jack Hylton Orchestra in England. Hylton and his band made regular ‘continental’ tours, and started another European tour January 1935 accompanied by Coleman Hawkins in Holland. At the end of January 1935 Hawkins joins the dutch band The Rambers … for 8 days … because Hawkins was denied entry to Germany because of his race, while Hylton and his band continued their tour without him and play for eight days at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.

To end this special week with Hawkins well, the bandleader of The Ramblers – Theo Uden Masman – arranged with Decca for recordings 4 february 1935 in Pulchri Studio in The Hague, Holland, including this : I wish I were twins…that was also recorded on film by Polygoon (Polygoontoon) for the dutch cinema news for next week .

Coleman Hawkins is accomponied here on film by the dutch jazz pioneer Leo de la Fuente on piano , playing ‘I wished that I were twins’ . After the recordings, Hawkins moves further into Europe.

Leo – Leonard Henriques – de la Fuente, who was born Jewish in Amsterdam 28 March 1902, was deported by the nazi’s to Auschwitz on 2 November 1942, and died 30 April 1944 ‘somewhere in Mid Europe’.

References

About Leonard Henriques de la Fuente, his wife Hendrika de Vries and his daughters Benvenida and Mietje. Joods Monument. URL https://www.joodsmonument.nl/en/page/680262/about-leonard-henriques-de-la-fuente-his-wife-hendrika-de-vries-and

Biografie Leo de la Fuente. Muziekencyclopedie.nl | Beeld & Geluid. URL https://www.muziekencyclopedie.nl/action/entry/Leo+de+la+Fuente

The Hawk in Holland. Jacky de Vries. Theater Sentiment – De verhalen over de artiesten van weleer – Jaargang 3 Nummer 4. URL https://theatersentiment.nl/the-hawk-in-holland/

Jack Hylton 1892-1965. Abaigh McKee. Politics & Propaganda | Music and the Holocaust | URL https://holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-propaganda/jack-hylton/

Film edited from source (video footage) : Polygoon Hollands Nieuws (Polygoontoon, producer) dutch cinema news reel week 7 , 1935 | Sound & Vision (Open Images)

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Viviane – 80 Years After Escape From Transport XX | 20231030

Short impression of Viviane telling her story April 2023 in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium, at the 80th anniversary of the attack on Transport XX near Boortmeerbeek — the Twentieth Train heading for Auschwitz, the night of April 19-20, 1943. Viviane escaped from Transport XX in the womb of her pregnant mother Isabella Weinreb-Castegnier who jumped from this death train, with the help of Elias Gnazik, shortly after the 2nd attack on this train near Bierbeek, Belgium. Viviane was born 6 months later October 30, 1943 in Brussels … and celebrates her 80th birthday today, October 30, 2023, in LA, USA 😉 Music : Al Kol Ele by Crescendo Boortmeerbeek Choir .

Full story available in free e-Book download :
Viviane Yarom-Castegnier & Michel van der Burg. Viviane’s Story: Escape from Transport XX… Born 6 Months Later [e-Book]. Boskoop, Miracles.Media, 2019. Distribution [ISBN (ePUB) : 978-94-93147-00-3 | ISBN (pdf) : 978-94-93147-01-0]. URL https://miracles.media/vivianesstory/

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