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...amusing incident occurred at the reception tendered to the Glee and Banjo Clubs after their concert at Fall River, Wednesday evening. The hall, which was lighted with electric lights, was suddenly thrown into pitchy darkness in the midst of a mazy waltz. Imagination pictures the tender scenes that followed without the aid of electric lights. (April...
There's Always a Woman (Columbia) builds up around rambunctious, banjo-eyed Joan Blondell a strong case for more blondes in the detective business. Skidding along on her intuition through a mystery that has as much mirth as murder, Private Detective Blondell bumps pertly from clue to clue, lands on the solution while the police and her sleuthing cinema husband (Melvyn Douglas) are still fumbling around...
...recent dinner, Wartime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker was shocked to see two graduates of unrevealed colleges using a "banjo grip" on their forks. To Cleveland's Western Reserve University, of which he is chairman of the board of trustees, Newton Baker (a Johns Hopkins man) forthwith appealed against the bad manners of recent college graduates. Last week Western Reserve's downtown unit, Cleveland College, announced that at Mr. Baker's suggestion it was establishing a class in "The Technique of Social and Business Intercourse." The course's laboratory: teas and dinners...
Music for the fun of it was the keynote of the Instrumental Clubs as they began to recruit members in Phillips Brooks House last night. The Vocal Club, the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Specialty division, whose plans for this year include a Christmas trip, will have another evening of trials tonight...
...abolish slavery, passenger railroads were about to be realized when Septimus Winner was born in Philadelphia in 1827. Joseph Winner, his father, made violins and Septimus studied music almost from the cradle. "Sep" got out of the Philadelphia High School at 20, began to give lessons on the banjo, guitar and violin, and married a watchman's daughter named Hannah Guyer. He played at balls and parades, was a member of the Philadelphia Brass Band. Hit by the hard times, he wrote in his diary: "Delightful out of funds, came to the conclusion to go to the poorhouse . . . didn...