Word: cornet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn mustachios and elegantly grasping a white kid glove and a pint...
...stage revue, "Stardust Revue of 1937" introduces a number of starlets under the tutelage of Benny Davis. Among the many acts are several tap dancers, a pair of comedians, a baritone some roller skaters, and a cornet player...
...peace of the countryside portrayed, a peace that seems to biot out even the final tragedy. The finest shot in the picture is of a flock of hens, silhouetted against the sky. The best music is that played by a peasant orchestra at a festival, with a liquid cornet carrying the melody. It is such things that make "The Mystic Mountain" worth the trip to the Fine Arts...
...Bassett, Iowa, Farmer Jacob Zimmer, 63, and his son Donald, 23, married Sisters Grace & Dorothy Tripp. Crowed Bridegroom Jacob: "Donald's always liked farmin' like me and he likes music, too-plays the cornet and the tuba both...
College, he plans to teach music when he graduates next spring. On trips like last week's he carries two cases-one for track clothes, one for his cornet. Doctors are interested in his slow pulse-44 at rest, 60 after mild exercise...