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...First came the development of serious choral music in the New England schools, which, by rigorous training in choirs and glee clubs, have pointed their students toward the Harvard Glee Club rather than for the informal singing that the Instrumental Clubs provide. Currently, came the shift of taste from banjo and mandolin to violin, 'cello, flute, and the like, a shift which has prospered the Pierian Sodality, but has laid the banjo and mandolin clubs in the grave. Couple all this with waning undergraduate support, which culminated in calling off the last two Christmas trips, and hard times...
...though the Clubs cannot kick against the pricks of changing tastes, a few readjustments can restore them to their rightful position in the college. By abandoning for good and all the banjo and mandolin, by concentrating on the orchestra and singing groups, for which there is talent galore, and by demanding reasonable proficiency and attendance at rehearsals, the Clubs would not have to stretch to put on a concert this spring as well as a tour of the East next Christmastide, especially since the mist of depression no longer hangs heavy over many interested graduates and sponsors...
...soprano lifts his clear and bell-like voice through a gamut of songs from Ave Maria to Swanee River, from The Flower Song by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld to Rainbow on the River by Paul Webster & Louis Alter. When not adroitly playing his own accompaniments on an adult size banjo. Soprano Breen shows himself past master of vaudeville song-plugging technique, including clenched fists, rolling eyes and trembling smile...
...Banjo On My Knee (Twentieth Century-Fox) is, in a completely unpretentious fashion, a new kind of picture. It is a folk story about a group of Mississippi islanders so isolated that they regard land folk as belonging to another race, hold to the belief that "if God had intended people to live in towns He would have created towns the same way He made rocks and trees." The folk story elements are as authentically saturated with mood as though this were serious drama instead of a light cinema with warmish music. What is most original about Banjo...
...clear for Chicago with a crooner, and Ernie was on the brink of a new wedding with a river gal (Katherine DeMille) when Newt nailed Pearl and Ernie in the barge-boat cabin. At last he found reason to strike up St. Louis Blues. Best tunes: With a Banjo On My Knee, There's Something in the Air. Best scene: Miss Stanwyck and the crooner sitting side by side, delivering monologs on their respective troubles, neither listening to the other. Best role: Buddy Ebsen as a river simpleton...