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...Died. Borrah Minevitch, 52, popular harmonica player of the 1930s and leader of the "Harmonica Rascals" band; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...
...Married. Borrah Minevitch, 52, popular harmonica player of the 1930s and leader of a harmonica band ("Harmonica Rascals"), turned Paris restaurateur; and Lucille Watson-Little, 30, former costume designer for the Ringling Bros. Circus; both for the second time (her marriage to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor was annulled); in Méreville, France...
...English girl who visited a bank vault before the looting started, got away with the "Peralta diamonds." Further and frequently risible sequences: Lieutenant Chavez (Harold Huber) thrice presenting triumphantly to his general what he thinks are the missing diamonds, thrice consigned to a firing squad for his ineptitude; Borrah Minnevitch and his gang of lunatic harmonica players going musically crazy; the captain of a British freighter stopped and searched at sea, proclaiming his outraged feelings in lan guage as colorful and crossed-up as the Union Jack...
...theatrical manager (Adolphe Menjou) on the lookout for new talent while touring the Alps with his own troupe-of which the chief virtue is the fact that it is not much impaired by interruptions. In addition to Sonja Henie's skating, these include harmonica-tooting by Borrah Minnevitch & band, singing by Leah Ray, outrageous clowning by the Ritz Brothers...
...payment of an alleged wager with Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop...
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