Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become an interlacing of U.S. warp and British woof. For every staff office held by a Briton, an American occupies an opposite number. Tedder calls Spaatz "Tooey"; Spaatz calls Tedder "Arthur." It is Arthur who occasionally in the evening plays U.S. tunes on the piano. Tooey, who is a guitar virtuoso, broods because he has no instrument with him. The French are scouring Algeria for one so Tooey can join...
...eight-redheaded Carl Spatz (later changed to Spaatz) was the youngest linotype operator in Pennsylvania. He operated the machine in the Boyertown, Pa. print shop where his Pennsylvania Dutch father and grandfather published the Berks County Democrat. Carl had a happier time playing the guitar, which Father Spatz taught him in the evening. Father Spatz, who became a state senator, got him an appointment to West Point, so off he went in 1910, lugging his guitar...
...Mexico with Pershing's Punitive Expedition, he played his guitar, collaborated on a composition called the Punitive Rag, and when World War I came along sailed for France. There to his chagrin he was assigned to a pilot-training job at Issoudun...
...Your Pleasure (produced by George M. Gatts). A vaudeville restricted to dancing, singing and music, For Your Pleasure makes skill the handmaiden of monotony. By midevening the audience yearns frantically for a trained seal; by evening's end it would trade all the guitar players on earth for a gag-even a thoroughly bad and bewhiskered...
Headlining the show are Veloz & Yolanda, whose sleek, accomplished ballroom dancing ranges from sambas to minuets, from pirouettes to parodies, but palls like any other meal after 13 generous helpings. Vicente Gomez is expert-and persistent -with a guitar; Jerry Shelton is lively-and lavish-with an accordion; Al & Lee Reiser are energetic-and relatively brief -with two pianos. The Golden Gate Quartet harmonizes-and with not too much variety. Susan Miller sings-a little too close to the microphone. Bill Gary dances-a little too much like Paul Draper...