Word: xylophonist
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Iron Curtain. In many another quarter, however, Georgy was doing fine. Time and again he had his picture taken grinning from ear to ear amid a sea of female workers. At an official dinner one night, he commandeered one of the entertainers, pretty, blonde Xylophonist Pauline Joy, and invited her to sit beside him. As Malenkov beamed and flashbulbs popped, Pauline in her tights banged out a selection of Russian folk tunes. After a couple of encores, the courtly Malenkov sent a waiter out to buy her "a large box of chocolates...
Died. Basil Garwood ("Professor Lam-berti") Lambert, 58, "mad xylophonist" of vaudeville; after long illness; in Hollywood. Professor Lamberti's best known act: he played repeated xylophone encores, to wild applause, apparently unaware that a stripteuse was performing behind his back...
...Orchestra, he seemed to be having the time of his life. Don Gillis' new Symphony for Fun was the kind of thing the maestro could let himself go on. On the podium, he swayed, sang, all but strutted a cakewalk. Once the Toscanini temper flared up-when the xylophonist floundered over a particularly tricky passage. In the studio control room, Composer Gillis watched the struggling xylophonist, whispered to a companion: "Poor guy. Doesn't he realize that no one could possibly play that passage? Even I know that...
...fine musical feature from Tokyo is the playing of Yoichi Hiraoka, famed Japanese xylophonist, who used to perform in U.S. concert halls and over a U.S. network. Says Grim : "He still plays classical music superbly, and without any commercials about his boss from Japan...
...Soon she and Oliver may commence a new weekly radio show which will enlist other American showfolk justly beloved of Britons : Frances Day, top-money musicomedy star who graduated from the Texas Guinan night club chorus; Ziegfeld Follies alumna Dorothy Dickson, Actress Claire (Gay Divorce) Luce, Greta Nissen, gargantuan Xylophonist Teddy Brown, and freckle-spattered dramatic Comedienne Constance Cummings...