Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wager with Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop drift. Even after running...
Died. Catherine T. Coll Wheelwright, 74, mother of President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State; after long illness; in Rochester, N. Y. An Irishwoman from Bruree, County Limerick, she bore President de Valera by her first husband (Vivian de Valera, a Spanish sculptor and musician long dead) hard by where Manhattan's Chrysler Building now stands...
...Angeles the bone of the contention was doing a nightly turn at the Sebastian Cotton Club. It was a typical Louis Armstrong act, like the one he has given in New Orleans, his hometown, where there is a special cigar named for him; in Philadelphia, where a musician in the audience once accused him of playing on a trick trumpet, enraging him so that he smashed it, sent out for a new one before he would go on with the show; in Manhattan where he once took a phial from his vestpocket, drank the contents (said to be dope) with...
...than middleclass prejudices; it does not hoard up its sons for the sake of the family fortune, but regards it as a duty to make gifts of them to 'the State.' "... Intended by them to be an ecclesiastical offering, though his own ambition was to be a musician, Glenway has turned out to be a Literary Gift. His books, The Apple of the Eye, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, picture his native Middle West of which he says: "How much sweeter to come and go than to stay." He now lives mostly in France...
...songs so old that no one else thought of singing them, songs so new that no one else quite dared to put them on a formal program -in all Eva Gauthier has introduced more than 700 songs. Last week's program was typically distinctive. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court musician to Louis XIV, was a classical beginning far off the beaten track. Then there was Gabriel Faure, the French man who transmitted his fragile, elusive style to the more popular Maurice Ravel. Every song had its mood subtly, surely conveyed. Toward the end a ghoulish piece by Modernist Alban Berg...