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Part-Cherokee, part-Irish Johnnie Lee Wills recorded it (for Bullet Records), and last week just about everybody in the U.S. seemed to be going through the alphabet. Rag Mop was at the top of the hit parade...
Such names had made the full descent to lower case; others had been borrowed intact, capitals and all. Prime Minister Gladstone, a busy traveler in his day, became a traveling bag. Prince 'Albert became a watch chain, a long coat and, among Australian beggars, a toe-rag worn in place of socks...
...Countess' world is shattered one day when she learns that her friends are unhappy because the "pimps" are taking over. (The pimps, explains the Rag-picker, are the parasites and non-productive members of society--presidents and vice-presidents of corporations, to be specific but non-inclusive,) The Countess sets out to rid Chaillot of such wickedness, which she manages to do in short order, there being "nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon." How she accomplishes this, and the introduction it affords to the Countess...
...Madwoman is warm and human and views the world through a dewy spider's web which she is constantly brushing from her eyes. It is an inspired performance. Other outstanding players are Estelle Winwood, as the Madwoman's gaily demented pal, John Carradine as the oratorical rag-picker, and Lydia Westman and Elconora Mendelssohn as the other accomplices...
Included in the new orchestration are "The Princeton Cannon Song," "Going Back to Old Nassau," "The Orange and the Black," and "Tiger Rag...