Word: harmonica
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This week CBS presents a radio play written around an instrument on which millions of small boys make the air horrible-a mouth organ. This harmonica is tootled with utmost purity by Larry Adler, at 27 the world's greatest harmonicist. Soon The Bronx Symphony Orchestra, 70-piece group which has been rehearsing for months, will play with Larry Adler as harmonica artist. He will blow, note for note, the solo part of a classic concerto originally written for the violin, Vivaldi's A Minor. For Virtuoso Adler, such symphonic antics are nothing new. Nor do most people...
...Specialist is young, handsome Lawrence Loy, a Kansan who has called dances since he was a boy, did the calls for Columbia's square-dance album. To back up Caller Loy, Columbia hired rangy, twinkling Carson Robison, a harmonica-burbling Kansas balladeer, no stranger to records and radio. Carson Robison's chief problem in making square-dance discs in the East was to find city fiddlers who could saw scratchy enough. He finally found them in Manhattan...
...this whole is less than its parts. Jimmy Stewart tries to keep busy by playing the harmonica Flashing Paulette Goddard, who has seldom looked prettier, sings and dances in old-style nightclub fashion. White-haired Charles Winninger booms through his routine with astounding energy for a 56-year-old. As the last of six tuneful but undistinguished tunes fades away, many a moviegoer might be excused for murmuring: "Jimmy hasn't got it." The Lady From Cheyenne (Universal) is Producer Frank Lloyd's conception of how women got the vote in Wyoming in 1869. According to this version...
...Last year the U. S. imported $853,094 worth of reeds from Italy and Germany for American-made harmonicas. Faced with a shortage this year, Philadelphia's Harmonica Reed Corp. and Chicago's American Harmonica Corp. handed the problem to their reed experts. Foreign reeds were tone-tested by hand. Lacking skilled labor for that job, the experts invented a machine which not only tests U. S. reeds for tone but also cuts them to size and rejects imperfect strips...
...says he "loves all the women in the world," and sounds that way when in his wailing, rackety voice he sings something like Big Leg Women Gets My Pay. Blind Boy is sometimes accompanied by his friend Sonny Terry, who is nearly blind, and whose noises on the harmonica, interspersed with incoherent shouts and screams, are some thing to hear...