Word: cornets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winning question: to identify the first example of "scat" singing (Heebie Jeebies), the recording group (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) and all the players (Armstrong on the cornet, Kid Ory on the trombone, Johnny Dodds on the clarinet, John St. Cyr on the banjo, Mrs. Armstrong at the piano...
...Howard E. Kessler of Western Reserve University School of Dentistry in Dental Surgery. Such therapy gives the child frequent muscle-control practice, helps correct his deformity. Sample musical prescriptions: a child with a protruded jaw should play the saxophone or clarinet, a child with a retruded jaw the trumpet, cornet, bugle or trombone...
...gondola. Meanwhile, she worked hard to prove herself an expert mimic. She can skillfully play Cockneys, Scotsmen, Irishmen and Americans. Critics like her ("Her main gift is impertinence. Not only does she stimulate the libido, she also transmits charm . . . and is about as neurotic as an ice-cream cornet*"). The public takes...
...Jack Webb-the big gun on TV's Dragnet-has directed and starred in, is pretty much the same old dum-de-dum-dumfounding stuff, but set in ragtime. Webb has cast himself this time as a sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows...
...Isobel Lennart have added a minimum of embroidery to this story. As Snyder, James Cagney has his best role in years and serves it well, mounting to successive levels of exasperation with as much ease and artistry as Bix Beiderbecke ever displayed in reaching the high note on his cornet. Cameron Mitchell makes the luckless Alderman a consistent and believable hu man being as well as a clay pigeon. Those who remember the sexy serenity with which Ruth Etting handled such numbers as the title song, Everybody Loves My Baby, At Sundown, and It All Depends on You, may find...