Word: musicianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank You Jeeves (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the first appearance in cinema of the most famed fictional character created by Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. Herein, Jeeves (Arthur Treacher), fabulously efficient gentleman's gentleman to addle-headed Bertie Wooster (David Niven), teaches a Negro swing musician to play the March of the Hussars on the saxophone, extricates his master from a band of thieves posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist...
According to Mr. Greene, this type of man was not intended to be included on the list. As an example he classed musicians, artists, or business men as practitioners, and not fundamental theorists and scientists. Harvard he said wished to boner only this latter class, and for this reason a degree was given to a great musical historian, no a musician, to a great fundamental economist, not a business...
...Eric Hatch have peopled Irene's world with the most completely realistic set of rich crazy people seen on the screen for some time. Butler Godfrey shows the babbling Mrs. Bullock how to get rid of the "little men" that haunt her after parties. He disciplines her musician sweetheart (Mischa Auer), whose single ability is that he can imitate a gorilla. He solves the financial woes of Mr. Bullock, who has been looking forward to going to Sing Sing as an embezzler so that he can "get up early, and do my day's work...
...Norfolk, Va. one day last October, a musician named George E. von Schilling was idly playing an accordion in his sitting room while his son Stanwurt, 3, toddled nearby. On a chair lay an euphonium, a tuba-like brass horn which Mr. von Schilling had borrowed from a friend. Suddenly Father von Schilling heard a soft beep from the big euphonium, saw that Son Stanwurt was not only blowing into it but blowing correctly from the solar plexus rather than from the chest. Von Schilling leaped to a piano, struck an F and B flat which the child immediately echoed...
...young musician who recently completed an around-the-world tour and will remain in retirement for two years to rest and study is (1 Yehudi Menuhin, 2 Inez Gorman, 3 Ruth Slenczinski, 4 Nelson Eddy, 5 Doris Humphrey...