Word: fiddlers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe there is no match for Sergei Koussevitzky, bull fiddler. Last week in Boston he forgot for an evening he was a great conductor, gave a concert alone with his first love. One arm over its shoulder, his head bravely near its horns, he stroked it, caressed it, hypnotized it until it fairly quivered with the excitement of making music again. Fleetly, like a master violinist he put it through the most intricate paces. Solemnly, majestically he let it announce itself father and ruler of them all. Ladies, victims long since to the charms of Conductor Koussevitzky, sighed new sighs...
When President Andrew Johnson was facing impeachment charges after the Civil War, Eddie Foy started on his career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville...
...Fiddler John Wilder, 81, uncle of the President, came bustling up the White House drive at 6:45 a. m. The Coolidges entertained him with breakfast...
...grants that a violinist is more than a fiddler, that an artist ranks above a painter of pictures, that a poet is superior to a rhymer, but these distinctions are based on certain gradations of value. Would the Association classify Sliding Billy Watson as a hobo of a bum and would Bozo Snyder qualify as either? The fine fraternity of the open road and box car is threatened with the caste system when one wandering gentleman calls himself by a sweeter sound than another. Neo-classicism is raising its head bums must beware the genre as well as critics...
...President heard that his uncle John Wilder, 80, famed fiddler for diddling jigs and square dances, had signed up with four other natives of Plymouth, Vt., to tour U. S. vaudeville and cinema houses. William Morris, Manhattan theatrical manager, is booking them as an old-time barnstorming orchestra. They will open in Boston on Nov. 1, and return to Vermont in the spring in time to plant their crops...