Word: harmonica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final touch was added to the proceedings when, after peace was restored, a harmonica filled the otherwise hushed courtyard air with strains of "Silent Night...
...week for the harmonica. James Caesar Petrillo declared that it was a sure-enough, wage-earning musical instrument, and that professional harmonica players would have to join his musicians' union. Beamed Petrillo: "Now that it's getting so that people want to hear harmonicas, we're going to take them in. I'm for the people...
...American Guild of Variety Artists, however, Petrillo's words meant war. The A.G.V.A. had guilded the harmonica long since; it did not want it unionized into Boss Petrillo's clutches. Said an A.G.V.A. official last week: "We're like a punch-drunk fighter who's going in against the champ. But some day, even the champ has to fall...
Maladjusted. In Manhattan, the Ellin Prince Speyer Hospital for Animals informed the press that it had successfully treated a cat suffering from an eggnog hangover, might yet cure another that refused to eat until it had heard the scale played on a harmonica...
...Kapp personally supervised the last output (with orchestra) of his longtime meal ticket, Bing Crosby. In Chicago, the virtues of soup, soda, beer and cheese were hymned by singers and small bands right up to midnight. From now on, singing commercials could be made with voice and ocarina or harmonica accompaniment, but not with union musicians...