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Then the trouble began. Philharmonic officials announced that their musicians would not be permitted to play for Stokowski. Scouting around for a pick-up orchestra, Stokie discovered that the first-rate musicians in Havana were in the Philharmonic...
...fiddled since he was ten. At 17 he preached the gospel at rural revival meetings, then joined a gang of promising Texas badmen, two of whom were eventually sentenced to life terms. (One of his record best-sellers is The Convict and the Rose.) Wills and a group of pick-up musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your Own Sweet Darling Wife, with which 0'Daniel sang his way into the Texas...
Lowell House, however, has not been idle when their opposition has declined to appear, as they have managed to play two pick-up games. On Friday they beat Company E in a scrub game and yesterday they were utterly and irretrievably shellacked by an all-star aggregation culled from Companies A, B, and C, by the score...
Gloria Swanson and Ralph Forbes in the respective roles of Katherine and David succeed in making this rather absurd lovers' quarrel completely believable. Lynn Carter makes an attractive pick-up girl and injects a much-needed note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen...
Then finishing up, the countryside between here and Wellesley will never forget the horrendous spectacle of the "Good Time Boys" and their respective dates piled into a borrowed pick-up truck being caught in a sudden shower and unloading in the middle of Harvard Square...