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...individual performances, Hope's is far and away the standout. He blows bubbles through a cornet. He even gets the mouthpiece stuck on his lips, which is certainly a new one from his bag of tricks. And when he pulls off a crack about Congressmen with all the finesse of a dinosaur laying an egg, he is really tops...
When he was an undergraduate, Kennedy helped to organize the original Gold Coast Band, which was a local fixture until the war. He played trumpet and cornet, and until about a year ago managed to maintain his command of both instruments. During the war he was "in condition" enough to work with an outfit that played in Boston at USO dances and other social functions...
...same time that Kennedy was blowing his trumpet and cornet in Cambridge, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke were in the national spotlight on these instruments respectively. Both are among the cornerstones of Kennedy's record collection, which also includes nearly every now priceless record Bing Crosby made before he started to groan and ceased to sing with Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys...
...quit high school to play piano and sing in a band in which her father played bass, and Bunk Johnson played cornet. Hollywood has been hearing her in nightclubs for the past five years, but Nellie didn't really begin to catch on until Capitol recorded her He's a Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down and You Better Watch Yourself, Bub. Her first two records have already sold nearly a million copies. Last week Nellie, now 32, received Broadway's final tribute to a popular singer, Tin Pan Alley's rough equivalent to a Stalin...
...herrings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone and he is leaning back in his chair, playing his cornet. What is he playing? Well, I've called the picture I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls...