Word: harmonica
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There were a couple of seagoing prep-school boys, Al, an amateur boxer whose short upper lip made Sculptor Slobodkin distrust him, and Mush, who was unpleasantly popeyed. There was Georgia Boy, a snake-hipped harmonica player and dancer, who used to talk nostalgically about his "mammy." And there was Joe, whose father was a Yorkshireman, whose mother was a French Tahitian and whose English was a splendid massacre. Joe once referred to the "United Steaks Conscience, Washington, Disease" which, translated, turned out to be the United States Congress, Washington, D.C. Sometimes he would dream about his abandoned South...
...Harmonica Maestro Larry Adler, and the jingle-jangling Andrews Sisters...
...Brien goes along as mascot. There are frequent syrupy interludes of worry about Joe, Miss Allyson's husband who is missing in the Pacific, but there are also magnificent renditions of Handel's "Messiah" under the baton of Iturbi, and "Au Clare de Lune" by Larry Adler with his harmonica...
...Larry Adler can be highbrow on the harmonica or Andres Segovia on the guitar, what's wrong with an accordion? To prove there was nothing wrong, a slight, pretty accordion player with gold loops in her ears took the stage at Manhattan's staid Town Hall...
...Hollywood witch-doctor picture and the American Deep South. Fierce Yap and Woleai men [who had been imported as slave labor by the Japs] did a wild sword dance. Some wore breechclouts and danced barefoot. Others stomped proudly in G.I. shoes. Mreah, a male dancer, came out blowing a harmonica, and paced a group of women in gingham wrappers. Then out came some children who piped a Japanese love song in a tune that sounded like You Are My Sunshine. Their leader, a buxom girl, started her songs by chanting, 'Wan, two, left, right,' as a great compliment...