Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dudley 0: l.e., Stein. Alter, Porter, Bergman, Fisher, Slifkin, Massik. q., Wall. Lewis Glickman, Starr. Substitutes: Mincher, Black, Herscovitz, Levine...
AMERICAN STUFF-An Anthology-Viking ($2). Creative work of sincerity but varying merit, done by 66 WPA artists and writers from 20 States (in their spare time). Veterans include Vardis Fisher, Nathan Asch, Claude McKay, Vincent McHugh, Harry Kemp...
...under the name of the Schnickelfritz Band and whose chief assets are two trunkfuls of funny hats and a large supply of wigs, beards and spectacles. Night after night people lined up to pay 25? and crowd the Midway Club beyond its capacity (250) just to watch Leader Freddie Fisher & colleagues do their odd stuff. On the strength of their antics their Decca records, without any special promotion, were selling well throughout the U. S. The first four had sold out entirely in Chicago. And as they perspired through their nightly routine of horseplay. Freddie Fisher and his boys began...
Ferdinand ("Freddie") Fisher, 34, was born and reared on a farm near Garnavillo, Iowa. His father, whom he still calls "the best butter maker in Iowa," wanted him to play the piano, compromised on a clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern...
Richard C. W. Fisher, East Greenwich, Rhode Island--James T. Lockwood High School, Apponaug, Rhode Island...