Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More power to May Breen for her stand (as reported in your issue of Dec. 21) in demanding recognition by American Federation of Musicians for ukuleles; and I trust that I will not be out of tune in suggesting that in spite of our half-pint size there is just as much music in us as there is in a lot of bass horns, piccolos, saxophones and other instruments I have known...
...heard Paganini. He sees few of his press notices. They are being kept for him until he is 20. Yet once when he happened upon a particularly rhapsodic screed his comment was: "But I have no good spiccato. I have no staccato. I play my double-stops out of tune, my vibrato is bad and my trills terrible...
...last song which the glee club will render--"War and Washington" expresses better than any other poem of the day, the "Spirit of '76". The tune "British Grnadier" was already a century old; and it is still played by the band of the Grenadier Guards...
...time for writing, "Steve" Hannagan sold a dozen articles to Cosmopolitan last year on such personages as Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...
...Vincent Youmans, than whom Richard Rogers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter or Jerome Kern are no better. And yet, for all this talent, Through the Years remains a dreary, lifeless affair of lavender and old lace. You will sit through the better part of three acts before you hear a tune anything like the kind Composer Youmans wrote for Rainbow, Great Day, Hit the Deck cr Florenz Ziegfeld's Smiles. Best number in Through the Years is "Drums In My Heart," which should be drumming long after the show is packed off to the warehouse...