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...limousined father for a sugar daddy. As anyone could predict, Boy eventually becomes so successful that at picture's end he can stand the shock of learning who Girl really is. Otto Kruger supplies his touch of suavity, Jack Carson his considerable comic talent, and Janis Paige her banjo eyes and pretty curves-but none of these attractions can save the tired old story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...time your arrival carefully you can avoid the co-feature, something called "Banjo," involving dogs, children of various sizes and colors, and a Claghornian view of a shoddy but genteel Southland. It is as bad as it sounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1947 | See Source »

This afternoon Seegar will be alone with his banjo and his voice when he lets forth in Emerson. Tomorrow night, however, a bevy of his singing cohorts will join him in a "Hootenanny" in New England Mutual Hall. Jenny Hill, Tom Glazer and Brownie McGhee, popular songsters, will lend their talents to the folk concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete Seeger to Give Song Recital Today | 2/27/1947 | See Source »

Remembered by recordings such as "Lonesome Train," and Columbia Workshop broadcasts, the tall, lanky, blue-eyed singer has played his banjo and sung his songs for millions of people from coast to coast, with such other ballad "greats" as Doody Guthrie and Alan Lomax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete Seeger to Give Song Recital Today | 2/27/1947 | See Source »

...want a musician to beat on a drum, Or a trumpet ta toot, or a banjo to strum, You can't do a single thing 'til you hear from Petrillo. Petrillo. Petrillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Bah! from the Pooh-bah | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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