Word: castinet
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...pleasure of waltzing a few measures with Funnyman Willie Howard who, at the time, plays a drunk Scotsman to heckle Holtz from a new angle. Paradoxically, a large part of the show is devoted to classical Spanish dancer Argentinita and her colorfully dressed troupe who away expertly with a castinet in either hand. Though somewhat incongruous in a slapstick show, they prove that art is as effective as acrobatics in vaudeville. Humor, however, is the mainstay, with a relay of, Bert Wheeler, Willie Howard, and a dumb-but-not-deaf young man, Gene Sheldon, who all but steals the show...
...bred in Philadelphia, Miss Montgomery was dancing years before she came out in 1928. Since she is the daughter of rich Banker Robert Learning ("Colonel Bob") Montgomery, she has had plenty of money to study, compose, paint, model, indulge her taste for exotic instruments including Japanese "fish-heads," tiny, castinet-like instruments which priests are supposed to tap continuously near their ears to drive out all but religious thoughts. Drums have long been Miss Montgomery's passion, and for years she would not let her pupils practice with anything else...
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