Word: trumpeting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This Halloween was the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini's death in Detroit...
...silver-haired widow of Harry Houdini to night comes to its final and logical conclusion with this last attempt to pierce the Great Void. . . ." The magician explained that the spirit of Houdini might, if it could, ring the bell, unlock the handcuffs, speak a code message through the trumpet...
There should be a trumpet to blow when a picture like "Give Me Your Heart" comes to the University. It has already converted one Kay Francis hater, and she is still the weakest member of the cast. Of course the triangle has some clever new angles, but the dialogue and minor situations are what really give the actors their chance. Precious feet of film are given to good conversation, and the audience has a chance to enjoy the picture instead of having to follow a bewildering series of action shots...
...farmer's life of herds, droves, flocks and bevies, of hunting, fishing and camping. His family estate lies close to Washington. But today he has little time for those avocations, or lor his family of four young sons. Wrote he last summer in his Reader's Digest trumpet call: ''If the eradication of syphilis were to be my one official duty during the next 20 years I should attempt it very confidently with a budget substantially less than that which has been expended during the past 20 years for a single animal disease- bovine tuberculosis. Syphilis...
Chief interest in this revival of twelve old Victor recordings on which the late great Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke plays trumpet with such bands as Whiteman's and Goldkette's is that Victor has. wherever possible, made the records from masters not originally used. Like most great jazz musicians, "Bix'' seldom played the same chorus the same way twice...