Word: crumit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest will be officially opened by either Frank Crumit or Helen Kane, star of "Good Boy", both of whom are in town. Whoever of these two acts in the capacity of official starter will stand in the middle of Holyoke Street and wave a crimson and white Harvard banner at the sign of which the two men will dash to their respective windows and begin their musical listening duel to see who is the first to go lunatic...
...Cambridge the records purchased run to extremes, they may be one of the asbestos wrapped variety, they may be Beethoven, or they may be modernistic. Joe Venuti, Red Nichols, Ted Lewis, and Whitman are the favorite orchestras. least popular are "Hill-Billy", Frank Crumit, Vernon-Dalhart-Death-of little-Marion Parker, Victor Herbert, and sentimental recordings...
...FRANK CRUMIT, soulful-songster of comic balads has produced "Bride's Lament" and "Jack is Every Inch a Sailor". The funniest thing about them is that when written, they weren't supposed to be funny...
...good pieces, among the best being "Maybe," "Clap Yo' Hads, "Do-Do-Do," "Fidgety Feet," and "Someone to Watch Over Me." Frank Crumit as the leading man and Julia--Sanderson, playing the corresponding part in the opposite sex, evidently chosen for their truly excellent voices in casting them for the roles of Jimmie Winters, the much-married hero, and Kay, the bootlegging sister of a bootlegging English duke...
John Hazard and Frank Crumit, who play the Nettleton Johns outfit, are surprisingly natural in their actions except for too much winking at the audience Mile. Sanderson was on hand occasionally with her perennial charm and a good voice. She was called back four or five times for the song in which she hinted that she was a lady. Polly and Dick, the office-hands, were nice youngsters who insisted on missing the last note of every song. Coddles, the coo-coo maid stumbled around in mad gyrations and burlesque ballets until Ye Wilbur threatened to collapse on its foundations...