Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Musical Society's performance is true to the authors in all respects. The seventeen-piece orchestra, including banjo, accordion, and harmonium, gave each of Weill's melodies the rich, lively treatment it deserved. Howard Brown's entire musical direction seemed devoted to finding just the right expressions within Weill's jazz idiom and successfully capturing them...
...scenery and costumes by William and Jean Eckart were authentic when they must be, fantastic whenever possible. The entire production had all the markings of Adler-Ross; George Abbett's flawless timing and pacc, a banjo in the orchestra, and a score of pearls dangling over a unique script. Damn Yankees, it seems safe enough to wager, will be around when the hurly burly's done, when the Series is lost...
...Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater, a syndicated film series shown locally across the nation, should be perfect for all ardent Cantor fans. Eddie sings his old songs, pats his hands, rolls his banjo eyes, bounces on tiptoe and mixes large doses of sentimentality with a succession of harmless jokes. On the opening show, Brian Aherne labored through a too-cute skit dealing with a talking dog and an equally gabby child...
...Gertrude was brought up in an eight-room house on Detroit's middle-class Kirby Street. Life was pleasant and easygoing. In the evenings Joe and his brother and sister liked to gather around their mother's piano for a family sing, with father Dodge strumming a banjo. Sundays, little Joe sang soprano in the St. Andrew's (Episcopal) choir until his voice changed...
Republicans re-elected six Senators. Among the six: New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, the Senate's president pro tempore, South Dakota's Karl Mundt and Idaho's Henry Dworshak, who swamped Democrat Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's banjo-playing running mate on 1948's Progressive ticket...