Word: bandsmen
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...great Sportpalast. A marching band is the commonest occurrence in Nazi Germany, but at the sight of this one Berliners stopped, gaped, cheered. The Blatz Post American Legion Band of Milwaukee was the first to march behind the U. S. flag in Berlin since the War. When the bandsmen, with black crepe on their arms in honor of President von Hindenburg, reached the Sportpalast, largest auditorium in the city, 15,000 ticket holders shouted "hoch" and gave the Nazi salute...
Explaining his success to members of New York's Advertising Club, Rudy Vallee told how he keeps his bandsmen up to scratch. Said he: "I say to my men sometimes, I say, 'What are you, a bunch of bricklayers?' I say that merely to stimulate them, although I am known as a hard, driving leader...
...additional title of Empress of India, was reproduced in the Garden with such historic fidelitv that the lead elephant's name was Technocracy. Another one, Lily the Golden, was a massive bulk of gilt bearing a gilded girl. A mighty blaring of brasses followed the pachyderms, from bandsmen geared out in topis like London bobby's caps. Missing were the mahouts, the ankuses, the jasmine garlands, the gas flares-but not missing was the public's immediate acclaim. Though ''Mister John" Ringling was too sick to come up from Florida, the opening of his circus...
...York City Department of Sanitation have led double lives. Ostensibly employed as street cleaners, stablemen and garbage truck drivers, they have spent much of their time tootling on brass instruments, dressing themselves up in gorgeous blue & gold uniforms to furnish music for city celebrations. The sanitation bandsmen welcomed the King & Queen of the Belgians, Queen Marie of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Lloyd George, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and many another. Unless there was snow to be cleaned off the streets the department allowed them generous time off for rehearsal. But last week they too were hit by the economy drive...
...Manhattan, on the Mall not far from the Central Park monkeys, summer crowds gathered last week for the first of the band concerts which Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim gives free in memory of her mining husband. The bandsmen all had new dark blue uniforms with G on their brass buttons, their lapels, their caps. The G did not stand for their patroness' name but for Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman, who has conducted free Guggenheim concerts for 14 summers...