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Burly, banana-fingered Charles John Grimm first started cutting capers for Chicago fans in 1925. In seven years as the Cubs' first baseman, he endeared himself to the crowd by mixing mimicry and banjo playing with expert ball. In six years managing, he was even more impressive: two pennants, two seconds, two thirds. He was fired in 1938 as the Cubs slipped, but the Cubs kept slipping to their present all-time low. One of Grimm's chief hopes is the Cubs' $60,000 clouting outfielder Lou Novikoff, who missed spring training. Novikoff did not get along...
Eddie Cantor, who has been rolling his banjo eyes (see p. 54) at wounded servicemen on the "Purple Heart Circuit" for three months, was awarded a Purple Heart scroll at a testimonial dinner marking his 35th anniversary in show business...
...boys in the band, for this Sunday, will be Charlie Vinal (clarinet), Johnny Windhurst (cornet), George Lugg (trombone,) Ev Schwarz (piano), Johnny Fields (bass), Inky Ingersoll (banjo), and Jack Hart (drums). Johnny Windhurst, it will be recalled, came up from New York with Jim Moynahan '23, for a session last month. Since, then, he's moved to South Weymouth (living with Charlie Vinal). George Lugg is the veteran tailgate trombonist of Chicago jazz fame who appeared twice last summer at the Harvard Jazz Club's sessions with Art Hodes' band. He's making the trip up from New York...
...Cousin Emmy and Her Kin Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits it up on my banjo, and I wow 'em. Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time. Then somebody hollers 'Let's see her yodel,' and I obliges...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...