Word: cornets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewish, but a slender Italian. His father is Pietro Ricci, welder in a San Francisco foundry, trombonist, onetime music teacher in San Mateo and Santa Clara public schools. The family is poor, but all the children have unusual musical talent. Rosa, 13, plays the piano; Lorraine, 10, the cornet; Ruggiero, 9, and Giorgio, 7, the violin; Emma, 4, the drums and cymbals; and even Virginia, 2, sings perfectly in tune. Three years ago the Ricci children had their own little band, picked up what pennies they could in their neighborhood. About that time Father Ricci realized Ruggiero's astonishing ability...
...crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella, a bird cage, salad bowls. Asked Senator Barkley of Kentucky: "By what authority have Kresge and Woolworth moved into this chamber?" Warrior Norris picked up a cornet, blew on it a long mocking blast. On the desk of Brigadier Brookhart, tattler on "Wall Street booze parties" was playfully set a large purple champagne bottle...
Scott Burbank '29 and H. C. Adamson will appear among the specialty performers, the former with a novel instrument act with cornet, xylophone and drums, while the latter will deliver various short monologues and imitations...
...every corner the world around they took their stand last week as usual, just after nightfall. Tambourine shook, cornet squealed, trombone grunted. The thin bleat of pinched spinster voices, shrilling from time to time in accents of wailing fervor, took up the immemorial hymns. "Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb...
...specialty acts will be done by S. W. Burbank '29, who will give a solo on the xylophone and cornet, J. S. B. Archer '31, who will sing a tenor solo, and Robert Reinhart '29 giving a aleight of hand performance...