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...Heckstall-Smith, Secretary of the Anglo-South American Association, last week declared: "The Prince of Wales is the greatest salesman England ever had! . . . No 'drummer' could have stimulated orders as the Prince has done on his visit to South America (TIME, Oct. 26 et ante). . . . New contracts involving millions of pounds annually are now coming to Britain from the Argentine and Chile. . . . We are getting back much of the business lost to the U. S. during...
...accuracy is here dealt round on the general subject of Broadway. The Follies, with Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Ann Pennington, Gallagher and Shean, and even Mr. Ziegfeld adequately included, is the subject. It seems that the low-comedy actress had never had a lover. It was the trap drummer that finally succumbed. They were very happy until the luxurious prima donna leered her way into their lives. Then a strange ending, so swift and so sincere as to be almost out of place...
...clock on Oct. 17, during a heavy cannonading from the American guns, Washington's men saw a British drummer mount the enemy's parapet. His beating could not be heard for the cannon; but, when a British officer climbed up beside him waving a white kerchief, it became evident the drummer was sounding a parley. All around the lines firing ceased; the British officer was blindfolded and led behind the American lines where General Washington received Lord Cornwallis' request that hostilities be suspended and a joint commission be named to draw up terms of surrender...
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...that is most frequently told and most generally believed among musicians, has to do with a corruption of the name 'Charles.' In Vicksburg, Miss., during the period when ragtime was at the height of its popularity and 'blues' were gaining favor, there was a colored drummer of rather unique ability named 'Chas. Washington.' As is a very common custom in certain parts of the South, he was called 'Chaz.' 'Chaz' could not read music but he had a gift of 'faking' and a marvelous sense of syncopated rhythm...