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...crew of clowning harmonica players, varied tap-dance routines, and a Sovitsky overture-impression help round out a rather simple yet not unpleasant evening's entertainment...

Author: By W.r.a. Jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...that ranks close behind "Casey Jones." Judge Davis quoted the Dalhart version which Victor attributes to two other Virginians, Charles Noell and Henry Whitter who took Noell's poem, modified it a bit and sang it around on street corners and in plank taverns to a guitar and harmonica accompaniment. Dalhart made "The Old 97" go this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Week's Cargo | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...student magician, ventriloquist, tap dancer, and harmonica player are among the individual entertainers listed in a circular just prepared by the Entertainment Service. Other features include a marionette show, a group of lecturers and several concert and dance orchestras...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT BUREAU FINDS STUDENTS WORK | 10/18/1933 | See Source »

...American Magazine, Cottier's, Town & Country) and he held a one-man show. The 200 photographs on the walls of the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, L. I. Last week were chiefly on theatrical subjects, all unposed. A tiny Contax camera looking like a child's harmonica, with a rapid-fire F 1.3 lens had turned them out the size of a special delivery stamp. Lohse had enlarged them six times and in their tight, strong compositions the subjects still looked natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: No Poses | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...cowboy from the wild old West. Wearing a ten-gallon hat and brightly decorated chaps he sang rip-roaring cowboy songs in a voice which he says will carry 300 yards against the wind. He bucked and reared as if he were riding a snorting bronco. He played a harmonica with his nose. He sang "Never Tie a Knot in a Billy Goat's Tail'' while his wife "Powder River Kitty " in another ten-gallon hat. played the guitar. Back in his hotel Powder River Jack Lee received reporters, expressed himself on the way cowboy songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bronco at Bellevue | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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