Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-19
The Once Over
THE RADIO ANNOUNCER POPULAR
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By Il. Z PHILLIPS

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"Just a Vagabond Lover Now folks, in this Sc
lection YOU will hear one of the touching folk-songs
of the American people. The author, as you perhaps
know. is Rudy Valee, who was eight years old before
he ever took a lesson and who originally intended TO
become a harpsichord player or dentist. One summer
while on a hitch-hike trip with a Viennese beauty,
the idea for this exquisite fantasy came to him. AS
the song begins you see him cropping about Tor some
thing that will express his longing for a better under
standing of the Hoover tariff bill, and then, as the
vioHnists swing into action, you seem to hear a distant
stripping of gears. Here the mood changes and there
is q suggestion Of a rag carpet being shaken out OF a
thirdstory window. The tempo increases srnartly 10
indicate the frying Of an egg, ~sunnyslde up III q COT
tage by the sea. Then the saXophones break out quite
unnecessarily to show unrequited love and the num-
Der comes to a conclusion with a far-aWay moan OF d
lady falling out of a canoe. This is one OF the mae
stroe's earliest works and was written while still a
Methodist.
"Button Up Your Overcoat." In Button Up
Your Overcoat. You Belong to Me- folks, you have a
connlete musical story of thirteenth century love be-
tween the Duke Gerard de Believers and a girl
named Annie. AS the selection begins, with muted
brasses, you seem to see. the open countryside Win
its green hills and dells. The oboes indicate the
puring Of a brook and from afar there comes the
sound of many motor cars. It is Sunday afternoon IN
midsummer. Here the mood changes OF denote traf-
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discovery Of red ants in the box luncheon. There is
laundering Of kettledrums to portray the fact that
Joe's Wayside Hot Doggery has run out OF franks,
and at this point night falls to an accompaniment OF
wood instruments, and we seem to see Anastasla,
Joe's daughter, listening to the Establishments OF a
stranger whose car she has lifted out OF q ditch. NOW
the violins break out in a furious movement TO mol
cate an outbreak by the strangers wife, a girl named
Vodka. There is a fight, marvelously portrayed by
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you see Anastasia unconscious from a blow from a
tire-iron while Vodka yanks the stranger into the
coupe and yodels the song theme.
"cHeigh Ho, Everybody! Heigh Ho!' Now, ladies
and gentlemen, we come to one of the most moving
compositions in the Lizst-Berlin period. 1t took form
originally in the composers head as a march, whose
idea was to commemorate the invasion Of Russia in
1872 by Napoleon /. An attack Of scarlet fever changed
this and the composer decided to make it a fantasia
depicting the gradual evolution Of the Philadelphia
Athletics. He fell sick again, which probably was
Just as we'll, and finally determined to write a num-
Der that would depict the sufferings of the American
investor under the Federal Reserve Board. Listen
carefully to the frequent changes of mood. The Sc
lection opens with a gnome dance at the Own Your
Own Gnome Festival just outside of Yonkers. You
hear Steel go to $50 to the joy of the natives who have
bought it at 173 on margin. Then there are ten min
utes of unintelligible music denoting a meeting of the
Reserve Board ana the issuing OF a statement IldG
knocks steel down to 1874. There is a dirge while the
stock is picked up by the Right People and the num-
Der concludes with the stock at 200"
In for a swim and
A surcease from toll;
Out smeared with melon
And grapefruit and oil.
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A German says he can fly from Europe to America
in six hours. Well, it will be a good trick if it takes
twice as long.