Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor-to-be, who carries a guitar but knows only a couple of chords, has held two other public offices. In 1938 he sang his way into a job as Shreveport's Commissioner of Public Safety. In 1942 he strummed his way into a post on the State Public Service Commission. A "shouting Baptist," he was born in northern Louisiana's hilly Jackson Parish, one of eleven children of a cotton farmer. His grandfather had a local reputation as a buck-&-wing artist. Jimmie planned to be a teacher. He graduated from Beech Springs Consolidated School...
...graduate of the Chinese National Institute of Music and now studying at Yale's Graduate School of Music, will play some typical Chinese instruments; the hoo-chin, similar to the western violin in construction but with a different tuning scale, and the pee-bah, comparable to the Occidental guitar, will be demonstrated. Indian and Turkish students may play some of their instruments also, notably the Indian flute. Native folk songs and Chinese opera scenes will be presented against an Oriental backdrop of Chinese landscape murals...
...then somebody hollers 'Let's see her dance,' and I obliges. After that we come to the sweetest part of our program-hymns." Guitar& Slops. Not many St. Louisians are abroad at 5:25 in the morning, but Cousin Emmy does not mind. She is talking for her own mountain folk and for small-towners. They listen, too-such is the power of KMOX-from Canada to Guadalcanal. They also buy the cough drops and hair dye she plugs, as is eloquently testified by the $850 a week which Cousin Emmy usually takes...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...
Beebe reports a menu, prepared for Cognac King Walter Dupuys: The hors d'oeuvres alone took up a half page of small type and were served to the accompaniment of "an ensemble of harp, flute, two violins and guitar, [playing] Venetian songs of gaiety." The soup required a guitar rendering of Moszkowski's Malagueña, the escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets...