Word: accordion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Lita Grey Chaplin, musicomedy actress, onetime wife of Cineman Charles Spencer Chaplin; and Phil Baker, accordion-playing funnyman; at Milwaukee...
...Tuesday, therefore, fully 150 people crowded into the factory loft. To honor the holiday, and the educational-propagandal film from Moscow they were all magnificently drunk. Comrade Bazarnov, the movie operator, was far too drunk to handle the machine. He sat on the floor playing an accordion and smoking cigarets, while a friend riotously cranked the projector in the doorway and ribbons of celluloid spewed from the machine and lay curled on the floor. The butt of Operator Bazarnov's cigaret fell to the ground. In an instant the projector and the doorway were a mass of flames. Bazarnov...
...smuggling diamonds. Three or four years ago a film photographed, acted, plotted as effectively as this would have been called, inaccurately, a masterpiece. Audiences who saw it last week thought it was a fair program picture. Best shot: the little stoker (Clyde Cook) playing the accordion...
...cigarettes are still holding out, and so are the magazines and so, while you're smoking and reading, listen to something that sounds terrible, and really is rather interesting. The record is "VISION OF LOVE," and "BEAUTIFUL HEAVENS." Accordion Solos, with Banjo Accompaniment...
Music-loving explorers may play or learn to play: harmonicas (Hohner), one player piano (Wurlitzer), one accordion (Hohner), one xylophone (Deagan), guitars (The Harmony Co. of Chicago), victrolas (Victor Talking Machine...