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KING FOR A DAY --OLD MAN SUNSHINE, sung by SAM COSLOW. Coslow is billed as the "Broadway, Minstrel", has a good voice similar to Harry Richman, and a pair of agonized eyebrows. The record however, Isn't so hot. Not Coslow's fault--just a poor recording. Watch this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/3/1928 | See Source »

...smiling Scotch minstrel, turned autobiographer, tells of coal-mining, at eleven, to knighthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mention- Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Surprisingly soon after his mother bought the fiddle for him, Harry Braun met Leopold Auer, greatest teacher of violinists. Leopold Auer was interested in meeting the adolescent minstrel as he is in meeting all youthful violinists; he remained interested in Harry Braun. When Harry Braun was a little older he met Zinc-King August Heckscher, who gave him a $25,000 Stradivarius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brain & Braim | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...Spaeth has collected a notable array of heterogeneous minstrel favorites? ribald, comic, sentimental, naïve. Some of these songs, and many old chestnuts, have been ordered into a very playable "working model" which will undoubtedly be used as a basis for many an amateur theatrical?to say nothing of radio boys' programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Original Specialty | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front with Ranjit Singh close to him; then came Port Hole and Royal Minstrel and Felstead and Sunny Trace ridden by Gordon Richards, England's premier jockey. They left the level and ran wildly downhill toward the hairpin turn called Tattenham Corner. No horse has a chance unless he is one of the first two or three to get round. Flamingo was still in front but now Felstead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Epsom Downs | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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