Word: cornets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Colton, the elderly owner, is carrying on with Mayme Taylor,* the high-wire artiste (redheaded Lee Patrick, villainess of June Moon). His niece (Ruth Easton) has fallen for a cornet player (Alan Bunce) who is suspected of being a stool pigeon for a rival circus. The rascally son of the privilege car's rascally proprietor unexpectedly returns from jail to take up counterfeiting. There are also various subplots which flow back and forth across a stage crowded with amusing, if too finely drawn, circus types-"razorbacks" (laborers), cootch dancers, a harmless dope fiend, a harmless kleptomaniac (funny William Foran...
...bathtub? and in the fireplace?....the day after Gettysburg....who got in a fight?....he did?....well he was stewed....I know because I saw him....serves him right....oh, so he went to jail too?....for driving a taxi around the Yard at six this morning?....with the cornet player from the Somerset band?....serves them both right....I will not....I haven't enough money....ball comes high around here....I won't do it....he has all our tickets?....omigod....ask the janitor if he'll run down to the station and find out if they...
...principles of his luminous palette to his pupils that their work is frequently censured as being only an echo of Mr. Savage's. Painter De Maio is one of 13 children of a retired musician. To meet the expenses of his four-year course, he blew a cornet in jazz orchestras, in the Yale football band...