Word: harps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand up and do a buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life and humanity, express itself. A singing bird does its scales like a tyro, gulps, quivers and heaves like a diva, perches on the sheet music on the piano rack and turns the pages. The dog chases the cat through a clothes wringer. Both come through...
Most of the important organ stops nestle in the new Aeolian-Skinner console. There is a flute celeste, chimney flute, vox humana, piccolo, harp. But there are two manuals against most organs' four and the 427 pipes fit into a nine-by-six-foot closet. The new organ costs $6,000, a new low for full-scale electrically reproducing instruments. It will play any and all of Aeolian's famed $750,000 library of organ rolls-costing $2 to $10 each...
...Grofé had been persuaded to write Tabloid by his friend George Clarke, restless, hard-driving city editor of the New York Daily Mirror. Grofé visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar...
...would still be hard to believe that all of the production would be absolutely tip-top. The fallacy, by which the effete critics are snared, is the idea that the cinema is solely a medium of art. Granted, it is that, but like a piano or a jew's harp, it is a great deal more, it is a medium of amusement. Amusement, as in the case of a poker game, often falls very, very, far short of art, and yet is, as amusement, very, very, good pastime for the reading period. As for the art the cinema turns...
...Today" colyum to describing the animals in Mr. Hearst's private zoo. Then he went on: "The collection of human beings here is also interesting. Charlie Chaplin flew up yesterday. One of the Marx Brothers, named Harpo, has just arrived, in a hired plane. He brought his harp and played on the way up. Charles MacArthur, who wrote The Front Page and married Helen Hayes, two remarkable accomplishments for one so young, flew up with Marx and warned him against harp playing, which is a celestial monopoly at a certain height above ground...