Word: xylophonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...