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...that they are undressed. There are also two funnymen- melancholy little Jimmie Savo and handsome Jack Benny- and one extremely funny man, Herb Williams. Mr. Williams culminates his evening's work when, while playing the piano, he pauses to remove a sandwich from a trapdoor in the piano stool, and to draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot under the keyboard...
Lyman Richards M.D. would test concert audiences' musical appreciation by seating "Kreisler, shabbily disguised, on a camp stool at a busy sidewalk corner. A 'Blind' sign above his dark glasses, let him draw his magic bow and play as only he can play it, the Caprice Viennois." (TIME, April...
Convinced that much musical hypocrisy exists among our symphonic and concert audiences who, impressed by the eminence of the artists, claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand, I propose a test. Let Artist Kreisler seat himself, shabbily disguised, on a camp stool at a busy sidewalk corner. A " Blind" sign above his dark glasses, let him draw his magic bow, and play, as only he can play it, the Caprice Viennois. How many, think you, of his applauding audience, as they hurried by, would pause longer than to jangle a few pennies into the tin cup strapped...
With an expression of trepidation and constraint, Phil Scott, so-called heavyweight champion of England, got into a ring in Miami and sat down on a stool while his manager laced up his gloves. In the opposite corner Jack Sharkey, American contender, scowled ferociously and worked his gum-protector around in his mouth. It was a moment which had been preceded by weeks of intensive but not enthusiastic ballyhoo. Scott had looked very bad in training. Slow and clumsy, he had been upset several times by mediocre sparring partners. Sharkey, in fine condition, had been working as though every sparring...
When the average citizen hears Chicago mentioned, a somewhat hazy compound of stockyard smells, machine guns, stool pigeons for King George, and weird government wells up in his subconscious mind. When the same a. c. hears Boston, the subconscious first offers cod, tentatively; then follows up with culture, Concord, and the Tea Party, and closes firmly with censors. In Example One, there is no reaction of "culture"; in Example Two, the main reaction is "culture...