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Marriage Attempted. Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George Michael Cohan (who never forgave her for eloping with a banjo player in 1927); and one George Ranken, an accordion player. Balked by Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia laws that called for several days' wait. Elopers Cohan & Ranken returned to their Manhattan nightclub jobs. Said she: "Now I don't know if we'll get married...
...Rainey Bennett got his first artistic recognition as a high-school cartoonist in suburban Oak Park, Ill., helped pay his way through college by playing tenor banjo in a jazz band. He studied art in Chicago and Manhattan, now teaches it at Chicago's Art Institute. His favorite expletive: "Blue eggs...
...their time together, are seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a few songs that Vivien Leigh knows how to pick out c i the piano. In their repertory: The Melody in F, Banjo on My Knee, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean...
...offering of the clubs has been streamlined in the past two years to include pieces more up-to-date than the mandolin and banjo groups which have formed the mainstay of the organization in the past...
...promised to be more successful. No prophet of 1929, peering into the coming decade, could foresee the growth and acceptance of a native American art-the Iowa landscapes of Grant Wood, serene and sunny; the turbulent Missourians of Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with...