Word: cornetists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the war the songwriter from Maine plugged on at music. He wrote When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Sweet Evalina, If Your Foot Is Pretty, Show It. He toured for a time as cornetist in Pat Gilmore's Band. Then, when middleaged, his Yankee blood asserted itself and he turned to banking. But with all his fine clothes and his fashionable mustachios, he continued to hobnob with musicians, hover around publishing offices. On one such occasion he encountered Stephen Foster who whistled the melody of Old Folks at Home ("Suwannee River") while Bishop set down the notes and scored...
...said to be an addict; prison authorities find muggle-smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro cornet player") was sentenced to jail for 30 days for taking poison when caught smoking a "reefer...
...which entertained the visitors. When he found he could not take the boy home with him, Mayor Baker promised to send him $50 per year. Not to be outdone by this Portlandish gesture, Henri Prince, representing New York's Mayor Walker, proclaimed adoption of the eight-year-old cornetist in the same band. Then all the mayors sang "Sweet Adeline." A portentous thunderstorm marked the night arrival of the mayors in Paris. They were met by Count jean de Castel-lane, president of the Municipal Council, who invited them to luncheon next day at the Hotel de Ville...
...39th Street Theatre). With Lionel Atwill as leading man, she toured the country playing Ibsen. For several years she acted in Metro cinemas, following the vampire tradition established by Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, et al. Metro's president at that time was B. A. Rolfe, stunt cornetist, now director of the Lucky Strike radio dance orchestra. Last year Nazimova quarrelled with Eva Le Gallienne, quit the latter's Civic Repertory Company after a short engagement. A small woman with a mass of black bobbed hair, she lives in Westchester County. N. Y., wears costumes decoratively Russian, is famed...