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...show a varsity boat a few pointers on rowing, there may be a minimum of truth in it; but in actual practice it is absurd. If anybody can ride in the proposed coaching-excursion boats, who will there be left to fill the observation cars at New London? Peanut galleries are all right in their proper place, but there is a limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Naively Humorous Writer | 3/18/1931 | See Source »

...Peanut Vendor (El Manisero), with its hot, catchy rhythm between a jig and a tango, has started an invasion. Don Azpiazu's Havana Orchestra brought the song north last year, played it with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cuban Invasion | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Last week while music publishers were haggling over Cuban copyrights, Leader Reisman returned from Havana with an other sheaf of Cuban scores. In Havana he had a rest from The Peanut Vendor, which is seldom played there. But he heard many times Ay Mama Inez, Te Odio (I Hate You), Me Odias (You Hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cuban Invasion | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...afternoon last week Lily Pons sang Lucia at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Boxholders and peanut-galleryites liked her better than they have liked any newcomer in years. And Lily Pons went to bed at nine o'clock famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Excitement at the Met | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...great bulk of our subscribers make finished metal products - locomotives, pins, automobiles, dish pans, ships, peanut roasters, plows, typewriters, machinery, T squares, metal beds, traveling cranes, can openers, furnaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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