Word: harmonica
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...vault before the looting started, got away with the "Peralta diamonds." Further and frequently risible sequences: Lieutenant Chavez (Harold Huber) thrice presenting triumphantly to his general what he thinks are the missing diamonds, thrice consigned to a firing squad for his ineptitude; Borrah Minnevitch and his gang of lunatic harmonica players going musically crazy; the captain of a British freighter stopped and searched at sea, proclaiming his outraged feelings in lan guage as colorful and crossed-up as the Union Jack...
...Indian love charm. He is prancing over the divan, shouting to Cecilia to stop crying mascara over the cushions, when Joe and Nellie come dashing to her rescue. After many other antics, Cecilia finally has her debut as a singer. Sample caper: Hardy swallows an inch-long harmonica after which Laurel plays Pop Goes the Weasel by pressing on Hardy's sensitive circumference...
...anecdote-about a U. S. theatrical manager (Adolphe Menjou) on the lookout for new talent while touring the Alps with his own troupe-of which the chief virtue is the fact that it is not much impaired by interruptions. In addition to Sonja Henie's skating, these include harmonica-tooting by Borrah Minnevitch & band, singing by Leah Ray, outrageous clowning by the Ritz Brothers...
...Glenn Cunningham, Amelia Earhart and Owen D. Young. Bitter because the New Deal has rejected NEA's demands for a Federal annuity to assist U. S. schools lamed by Depression, NEA's Secretary Willard Givens cracked at NYA as follows: "While a few youngsters are being taught harmonica playing, fancy lariat throwing and boondoggling, some hundreds of thousands of less fortunate ones throughout the U. S. are being denied a decent health program or are doing without a full year's work in arithmetic, reading and history...
...between times. He wrote Waiting for Lefty while the Group was in Boston last year. He says he wrote part of Awake and Sing! while cooking for fellow Groupers in their seven-room flat. A Jew like half of the Group's personnel, he likes music, plays the harmonica, is unmarried. With the proceeds of his recent successes he bought an electric phonograph. Since any man who has two hits on Broadway can command his own price in Hollywood, Broadway observers wondered how long Playwright Odets would be satisfied with his electric phonograph...