Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy Milfon, champion racing driver of the early '20s, crashed with another car at a Detroit street crossing; one woman was killed. ∙ ∙ Driving in San Diego, Al Schacht, longtime "Clown Prince" of baseball, collided with a motorcycle. The cyclist and passenger were fatally injured. ∙ ∙ Banjo King Eddie Peabody, submarine veteran of World War I, is now a lieutenant commander in the Navy, running entertainments at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. ∙ ∙ Oldtime Heavyweight Champion James J. Jeffries is playing himself in a movie now in the works in Hollywood. Other members...
Bucks County Playhouse really waited for was to hear mute Harpo speak and play himself (Banjo). In the third act they were rewarded by the bandersnatch entrance of Harpo, minus his red fright-wig but plus a violent shirt with enormous purple and red flowers. Wildly ogling the indulgent audience, he plucked all the Harpo strings, blew bubble gum, enjoyed himself no end. Last time he had spoken out loud on the stage was 25 years ago in a Texas tank town. The long silence had not improved his manners. Said he, stealing a line from the play...
Born in Manhattan in 1903, Godfrey joined the Navy at 16, mastered the banjo in the course of a four-year hitch. Out of the Navy, he scraped along as short-order cook in a Manhattan diner, master of ceremonies in a Chicago hotspot, salesman of cemetery lots in Detroit, vaudeville trouper in Los Angeles. In 1927 he wearied of it all. enlisted in the Coast Guard. While still in the service, he got involved in an amateur radio show in Baltimore, wound up as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist." sponsored by a birdseed firm. With the help of Maryland...
...Allen during his early career was known as Paul Huckle. Progressing onward and upward in vaudeville, he did a turn as Fred St. James and Freddie James before he finally became Fred Allen. As he went along he added patter to his act, acquired a facility for playing the banjo and clarinet. Sometimes he even broke into song. He did his stuff all over the U. S., spent the 1915-16 season touring Australia. He was fond of old vaudeville standbys, worked up laughs when his audience was cold by greeting each bit of sparse applause with a tender "Thank...
...urged that this independence be conserved by members of the Class of '44, rather than wasted in "banjo-playing and beer-drinking." Recognizing that "these are challenging times," we should "avoid irritating partisan discussions and go after the real problems," in the spirit he summed up by the motto "For Harvard, for Country...