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...Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits it up on my banjo, and I wow 'em. Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time. Then somebody hollers 'Let's see her yodel,' and I obliges...
Beebe reports a menu, prepared for Cognac King Walter Dupuys: The hors d'oeuvres alone took up a half page of small type and were served to the accompaniment of "an ensemble of harp, flute, two violins and guitar, [playing] Venetian songs of gaiety." The soup required a guitar rendering of Moszkowski's Malagueña, the escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets...
Glider Crackup. Suddenly our pilot reached up, hesitated a fraction of a second, then smacked the tow release lever. With a twang like a snapped harp string, the long white towing cable vanished. The pounding thunder of air dropped to a murmur...
...Spend Money. The Bureau of the Budget has been in existence only 22 years. Before that, every Government agency applied individually to Congress for its yearly appropriation. In its first 1 8 years, under the first Director, Charles Gates Dawes, and his successors, the understaffed Bureau did little but harp on economy and round up the various figures for Congress. But as early as 1918 Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt had urged on the House Appropriations Committee a plan to create a budget bureau which would be the central control agency of the Government...
...except for the cleft-palate title) equally expert historical novel by the author of last year's best-selling The Harp and the Blade Hero Ingram Applegarth, an Elizabethan gentleman-adventurer, is 21, short, not good-looking, full of adolescent illusions about himself, intelligent and endearing. The brisk plot recounts his efforts to restore to beautiful Marian Barking her stolen estates. Author Myers' women are somewhat featureless, his male characters agreeably vital-in particular, one Tom the Crowder, a malefactor with more entertainment value than Ulysses' sirens, and much less conscience. Author Myers' period painting...