Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banjo Eyes (book by Joe Quillan & Izzy Elinson; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & John Latouche; produced by Albert Lewis...
...Banjo Eyes" is the musical comedy version of that slap-happy farce of several seasons ago, "Three Men on a Horse," Eddie Cantor, whom most of us have never seen on the stage, hoofs his way through the part of Erwin Trowbridge, a greeting-card rhyme writer who dreams hot tips about horse races. He falls into the hands of a gambler, Lionel Stander, who Jocks him in a hotel apartment and makes him dream up tips. Then there is Erwin's wife, Stander's moll, a lot of snappy lines, one or two good songs, and Banjo Eyes...
...Banjo Boy Sirs: In TIME, Oct. 27, your article "Heroes" [about the theory that Abraham Lincoln was John Calhoun's illegitimate son] is a blot on your journalistic record that will be and should be hard to overcome...
...urge for music and lack of money for an instrument moved Felix, as a boy, to make himself a banjo strung with J. & P. Coats spool thread. A Coats Co. stockholder, flood-bound at the Alley house, was so impressed by this contraption that he sent Felix a fine store banjo and persuaded the company to use a picture of a barefoot, banjo-playing boy as a trademark. At 16 Felix also wrote a ballad, Kidder Cole, which became famous...
...muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bones, vibraphone, xylophone...