Word: harmonica
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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...
...seene halfway through "Room Service" finds a doctor bound and gagged in the bathroom, Harpo Marx chasing a turkey around the hotel room, and Groucho and Chicho browbeating a timid lawyer into signing a $15,000 check. In a matter of minutes Harpo accompanies the other two on the harmonica as they sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" over the body of a possum-playing playwright. All this and love interest too is entrenched at Boston's citadel of slapstick, the Laffmovie...
Among the few rural paintings in Shahn's show was one of a solitary workman playing Pretty Girl Milking the Cow on a harmonica. It was far from pastoral. Whenever he can, he visits Manhattan "to see my reflection in the windows and rub elbows with the crowd. I take in all the newsreels too, and I think they influence my work quite a bit. Movies are really the master medium...
Reported the Daily Herald critic: "I went skeptical, like most of the audience, I fancy, but after listening to a programme of Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Bloch and Enesco, I was convinced that Adler is a very considerable artist and that in his hands the harmonica can indeed be made to do almost anything-including playing chords and imitating a plucked string...