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Born in Manhattan in 1903, Godfrey joined the Navy at 16, mastered the banjo in the course of a four-year hitch. Out of the Navy, he scraped along as short-order cook in a Manhattan diner, master of ceremonies in a Chicago hotspot, salesman of cemetery lots in Detroit, vaudeville trouper in Los Angeles. In 1927 he wearied of it all. enlisted in the Coast Guard. While still in the service, he got involved in an amateur radio show in Baltimore, wound up as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist." sponsored by a birdseed firm. With the help of Maryland...
...Allen during his early career was known as Paul Huckle. Progressing onward and upward in vaudeville, he did a turn as Fred St. James and Freddie James before he finally became Fred Allen. As he went along he added patter to his act, acquired a facility for playing the banjo and clarinet. Sometimes he even broke into song. He did his stuff all over the U. S., spent the 1915-16 season touring Australia. He was fond of old vaudeville standbys, worked up laughs when his audience was cold by greeting each bit of sparse applause with a tender "Thank...
...urged that this independence be conserved by members of the Class of '44, rather than wasted in "banjo-playing and beer-drinking." Recognizing that "these are challenging times," we should "avoid irritating partisan discussions and go after the real problems," in the spirit he summed up by the motto "For Harvard, for Country...
...Pappy's" pensions are dead in Texas, but vaudeville boomed again last week as six 1940 candidates for Governor, including Pappy O'Daniel, wound up their primary campaigns. This year, from Lee O'Daniel's troupe, two star attractions were weaned away: crooning Banjo Player Leon Huff and Steel Guitarist Kermit ("Horace the Love Bird") Whalen. They joined the company of snuff-dipping, wisecracking Candidate Gerald Anthony ("Jerry") Sadler, 32, onetime bellhop, now a member of the Texas Railroad Commission. The other four candidates were...
...loaded with troubled heroines. At 1:15-1:30 p.m. (E. S. T.) on April 30, Tuesdays and Thursdays thereafter, Sweetheart Toilet Soap Presents Eleanor Roosevelt will be heard over NBC's Red Network. Current Sweetheart Soapster is Baritone Jack Berch, whose Song Club (piano, banjo, swing accordion) has for its theme song: Hello, There, Anybody Home...