Word: band
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along toward dawn one morning last week, Screen Actor Humphrey Bogart was sitting, in person, in Manhattan's not quite haut monde saloon, the Stork Club. It was the hour when it is virtually impossible to decide whether a rumba band goes bonkle bonkle tonk, or tonkle tonkle bonk; when waiters' arches ache, and blondes brush the hair out of their eyes in a queenly way. Bogart, who was sipping happily on a drink, decided to send out for two 22-lb. stuffed pandas...
Congressman Murphy and Mrs. Murphy had just dropped into the capital by air. Meanwhile, six other U.S. Congressmen were welcomed over the border in Catalonia by a brass band and flower girls. Then they proceeded to Barcelona, accompanied by Pablo Merry...
...procession's end, Nehru stepped from his barge to an automobile and sped off to a guest house. Along the way he was serenaded by a volunteer band which seemed to know only one tune-Marching Through Georgia...
...February 1928 the little nine-piece band had made a big hit with dance fans, and was all set to make an even bigger one. For their first appearance on a vaudeville bill in Chicago's Palace Theater, they had a wow comic-hat routine to go with I Wish I Was In Peoria and a noisy harness gag for Thanks for the Buggy Ride. But they put their new act on only once. Stormed the theater manager: "For the $4,000 a week we're paying you, we can get a good comedian for every...
...second show, the band went back to the sweet and swoony, and it was lucky they did. The Chicago Herald & Examiner's redoubtable Critic Ashton Stevens covered the performance, closed his review with the line that, for dancers, has identified Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians through two decades: "The sweetest music this side of heaven." Probably because Guy has kept it the same old sweet and danceable way ever since, he has survived-while ripplers, swingsters, hoppers and scoffers who called him the "King of Corn" fell by the wayside. And because he survived, and earned a reputation...