Word: harmonica
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...black glasses blazing, to harangue his collagues, who rarely listen to him, on such subjects as patent pools, monopoly, or the insufficiency of Relief expenditures. Before the holiday adjournment, Representative Dunn ascended the speaker's rostrum, caroled several stanzas of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful and played his harmonica to an all but empty house (see cut, p. 8). Later he inserted in the Congressional Record his New Year's greeting to "all the people in the U. S. and throughout the world." One day last week, as the House was rapidly dispensing with its initial daily routine...
...solider stuff. To the surprise of conductor and orchestra. the staid audience stomped, clapped and howled its approval. Within the next three years approximately 500 performances of the work were given by U. S. symphony orchestras, thousands more by every conceivable combination of instruments, from jazz bands to harmonica ensembles. Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths gaped incredulously as this symphonic work began to outsell their own best sellers. U. S. lowbrows who had never heard of shy, hermit-like French Impressionist Maurice Ravel sang, hummed, whistled and danced to his Bolero...
...peculiar memorial to the late George Gershwin appeared last week in the form of a record made in England by Columbia. Gershwin-King of Rhythm is distinguished by sweet & low singing of The Man I Love by Hildegarde, tremolo rendering of a Gershwin tune on the harmonica by Larry Adler, and the cultivated, funereal tones of an English master of ceremonies paying tribute to the composer in odd counterpoint to the smooth, Hebrew melodies of the Jazz King. While this curio was being put on sale in Manhattan phonograph shops, one of the least sentimental and most interesting events...
...think most persons will be surprised at the large number of things we can get into a relatively small store." Most persons who visited the sample Schulte store at Manhattan's 86th Street & Broadway were surprised. Mr. Roth had filled it with 175 items, from the Victory Band Harmonica to cocktail shakers, had arranged them neatly in good department-store fashion. Two more of the new stores will open in Manhattan before the end of the year...
...stage show with Jane Froman, Stoopnagle and Bud, Bob Ripa, and Borah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals is excellent...