On the stage it looked and sounded like a rich, ripe American swingfest. The unrehearsed band, including a West Indies Negro drummer and three American G.I.s, played all around such jazz standbys as Body and Soul and Sweet Georgia Brown, and really got hot on Benny Goodman's old Don't Be That Way. Pace setter was the hot sax of Private Arthur Pepper, formerly with Gus A.rnheim's band—where Bing Crosby first got his start as a soloist.
But the audience was a very different matter. The 1,400 young Britons (at about four shillings a head) in London's Adelphi Theater last week were about...
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