Word: guitarists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus fortified, he proceeds to his job of setting Argentina's cultural tone. Minister Ivanissevich (a surgeon by profession, a guitarist and poet by avocation) also heads a secretariat of culture which has inquired in the past year into such matters as anti-religious sentiment in comic strips, the faulty patriotism of newsreels, and the alleged immorality of lyrics to certain popular tangos. Last week Oscar got around...
...same plan is followed on "Weary Blues," with Andrew Blakney's trumpet just before the final chorus the highlight here. "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" closes out the album; as Ory exhibits a lightness that seems incredible after his happy shouting phrases on the other sides, and guitarist Scott contributes a shouting, pushing vocal that shows a fine scorn for the loving spirit of his lyrics...
Besides cheery sex gags, Blackouts offers some highly special specialties-boy pianists, aged chorines and one-legged hoofers. There are also oldtimers like Composer Shelton (Some of These Days) Brooks and Guitarist Nick (Tip Toe Through the Tulips) Lucas; but they don't make things seem like old times. New, and nice to look at, is blonde Pat Williams, as the show's leading lady. Blackouts has its remarkable turns -a female contortionist, a set of trained lovebirds; but in the great days of vaudeville, they would merely have opened the show...
...week's end, after only two speeches (Paris, Ky. and Altoona, Pa.), Barkley took off in a converted B-17 accompanied by his favorite Mayflower Hotel musicians -a guitarist, a violinist, and an accordion player. "You're a little late," said Mrs. Hadley, who had been waiting for an hour at the St. Louis airport. Asked if they would elope, Barkley laughed and said, "There's only one reason for a man and woman to elope. That's if their mammy and pappy object...
...studio party for the then unknown young actress who had just gotten rave notices for her first big picture. María Félix invited Lara to a party next night at her apartment. She apologized for not having a piano, and asked him to bring a guitarist along. Instead, Lara sent a baby grand with the note: "To the incomparable María Félix from her admirer, Agustin Lara." They were married soon after. Every Mexican knows how Lara's famous María Bonita was composed during an enraptured trip to Acapulco with...