TV/FILM: Satchmo's Story, Music Substituting for Words

During the epilogue of "Louis," an energetic but muddled new silent film that played at the Apollo Theater on Monday night, a wide-eyed Louis Armstrong arrives at the Colored Waif's Home for Boys, confronted for the first time with a functional New Orleans institution, and the prospect of discipline. He's being lectured, sternly but kindly, by the home's band director, Prof. Peter Davis. The film is nearing a close, in other words, but Armstrong's story as we know it is poised to begin...

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