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...that time, the Glee Club held all its meetings jointly with the famous old Banjo and Mandolin Club, and sang popular and romantic songs. Professor Davidson encouraged the singing of classical music, a revolutionary departure for a college glee club...
...foolproof. Blow into the end of the wooden tube, and out comes sweet, soft, sad music. The recorder is easier to learn, easier on the neighbors, than the piano, fiddle, saxophone, for which ten easy lessons are never quite easy enough. It is decidedly less corny than the mandolin, banjo, accordion. Bach and Handel, and many another before them, wrote fine, easily negotiable recorder tunes...
...case of balding, banjo-eyed Charles Boyer, the answer is love. Love laughs at locked frontiers, drops M. Boyer, 42, into the U.S. melting pot. As Georges Iscovescu, renowned European gigolo and dancer, he is one of a hotelful of émigrés impatiently waiting to cross into the U.S. from a little Mexican border town. Impatient at the slow arrival of his quota number, he takes a tip from a former dancing partner (Paulette Goddard) who has married her way across the U.S.-Mexican border...
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...