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Andres Segovia: Music of Albeniz and Granados (Decca, 6 sides). Segovia's fastidious reading of two Spanish composers-on a guitar as sensitive as a harp -makes this the collector's album of the month. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...girl, whose round hat with ribbons would be forever slipping backward on her head." Quiet, modest, gentle, nevertheless "in her underslip, the translucence of pale flesh shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro nor half-breed," possessing "a fierce magnificence of Indian-colored flesh, high cheekbones that had been heavily rouged...
Hauls. In Evansville, Ind., police held a 130-lb. man who confessed that he had entered the James Fulkersons' home and stolen their 800-lb. piano. In Boston, police wondered where to look for thieves who had lifted a harp and a hearse. In Cleveland, Judge Robert N. Wilkin was primed to make a few remarks on law & order at a naturalization ceremony when one of the new citizens announced that his pocket had just been picked...
...bill was our man Bell, current A-Section Leader. Bell, a New York attorney, demonstrated a mastery of the ad lib racket with a couple of take-offs. Other feature performers included the inimitable Witt, "Orson" Wells, "Red" Pace, Overson, Briggs, Baker, Barker, Bridgeman, and Gress on the blew-harp...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...