Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smythe-Smythe, startles London by riding down the Mall on a camel. Funniest sequence: Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is asked to demonstrate her shoot ing prowess at an Oriental party given in her honor; the gun, going off in her shaking hands, shatters a vase, knocks the cap off a musician's head, breaks a globe in the chandelier; a colonel of the Sixth Lancers, full of cocktails, duplicates these feats, shoots down the chandelier to boot. Three Wise Guys (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is another one from the private dream world of Damon Runyon. A hard-boiled restatement...
...hobo that Handy began the musical career that has earned him mention in the Encyclopaedia Britannica for his fathering of the blues. He was the son of a Baptist preacher who considered it disgraceful to be a musician. Young Handy liked nothing so much as his battered cornet or a bit of close harmony with the boys on the street. When they heard of the World's Fair of 1893, four of them organized a quartet, hopped a freight to Chicago. There they remained jobless, finally had to work their way back South. But Handy's ambition persisted...
Notable were George Frederick Belcher's humorous paintings. Of his I/ Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls he said last week, "It is a picture of a shabby though very happy gentleman who is obviously a street musician. He is at home, seated at his table. You can see he has been enjoying himself - there are heads and tails of her rings on a plate, a bottle which has contained stout, and a glass which betrays the fact that he has drunk the stout. There is also a half-empty packet of cigarets. The happy gentleman is all alone...
...Frank Muto Was unabashed while he waited to get his camera back. One blazing-eyed young woman marched up to him and flayed him for having "marred the ending of a great historic concert." "But it might have been a grand picture," retorted Frank Muto who is no musician...
...smallest fields in the College. It is the avowed intention of the Department to supply a broad musical background in history, forms, and appreciation, and it does not attempt to teach applied music (technique if an instrument or the voice) which would be required by a composer or a musician. It is very different from the Yale School of Music which is a separate unit and supplies a training similar to a conservatory...