Word: accordion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even today few piano accordion squeezers rank as virtuosos. But this week, after an accordion recital in Philadelphia's staid Academy of Music, Philadelphia critics admitted that their townsman, dark, 30-year-old Andy Arcari, could claim the title. Accordionist Arcari, who had given previous recitals in Pittsburgh and Toledo, played a program ranging from Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen. Said Critic Henry Pleasants: "Here was a brilliance in scale and arpeggio passages that many a violinist or pianist could envy." Virtuoso Arcari, who makes most of his living teaching and playing...
Fastest climbing musical instrument in popular favor, according to trade statistics, is the piano accordion. Last year piano accordion sales took second place only to piano sales, accounted for $19,000,000 worth of business. There are at least 400,000 piano accordion players in the U. S. Their instrument, a more complicated and efficient descendant of the old-fashioned concertina, is really a small piano keyboard grafted on to an accordion...
...playwright who despises them. If, on the one hand, these characters are the prototypes for all the bughouse comedy that has recently come into vogue, on the other hand some of theare Hamlets feigning madness to avoid going mad in earnest. Heartbreak House has the deceptive structure of an accordion: pushed in, it looks like a congested comedy of eccentrics; but pulled out to its full length, with Captain Shotovers booming prophecies, with its stabs of pathos, with its acrobats who suddenly are transformed into an anguished Laocoon group, it utters an almost Biblical warning. As for the "timeliness" that...
...Laborers District Council, were actually racketeers who used their labor affiliation to screen a series of more or less dignified burglaries. Prosecutor Cullitan did not have much luck. When two plain-clothes men were assigned to follow them, Messrs. Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn the tide turned. About the time Mr. McGee was being literally thrown out of his union job, Cleveland's Safety Director Eliot...
Against Navy, the flaw in the team's scoring ability was most evident. When in midfield, with the Navy defenses necessarily spread out to guard against the Crimson pas threat, the mouse trap type of deception worked quite well. But once inside the twenty, when the Midshipmen secondary could accordion in a bit and the linemen could therefore risk being mousetrapped and charge in toward the center, the attack was stopped dead. In order to execute a mousetrap play, there must necessarily be a delay while the victimized lineman is bing trapped, a delay usually effected by ball handling...