Author: Merwyn Bogue
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780307114983
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This is the light-hearted tale of the trumpet player/stand-up comic known in the '30s as "the guy with the low-cut bangs and the high-kicking cornet." Bogue learned to play the cornet as a child and later left college to join the Kay Kyser Band. His nickname, "Ish Kabbible," came from the nonsense song that he clowned around with during his early days with the band. The name stuck, and soon he took on the role of comedian as well as musician. He describes his 20 years with Kyser, his adventures as an entertainer in the armed forces during World War II, his ventures into the movies, his years as an independent entertainer and his eventual switch from show business to real estate. Bogue, who wrote this unpretentious autobiography with his sister, tells of a life full of high jinks and fun.
Ish Kabibble
Author: Merwyn Bogue
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780307114983
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This is the light-hearted tale of the trumpet player/stand-up comic known in the '30s as "the guy with the low-cut bangs and the high-kicking cornet." Bogue learned to play the cornet as a child and later left college to join the Kay Kyser Band. His nickname, "Ish Kabbible," came from the nonsense song that he clowned around with during his early days with the band. The name stuck, and soon he took on the role of comedian as well as musician. He describes his 20 years with Kyser, his adventures as an entertainer in the armed forces during World War II, his ventures into the movies, his years as an independent entertainer and his eventual switch from show business to real estate. Bogue, who wrote this unpretentious autobiography with his sister, tells of a life full of high jinks and fun.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780307114983
Category : Entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This is the light-hearted tale of the trumpet player/stand-up comic known in the '30s as "the guy with the low-cut bangs and the high-kicking cornet." Bogue learned to play the cornet as a child and later left college to join the Kay Kyser Band. His nickname, "Ish Kabbible," came from the nonsense song that he clowned around with during his early days with the band. The name stuck, and soon he took on the role of comedian as well as musician. He describes his 20 years with Kyser, his adventures as an entertainer in the armed forces during World War II, his ventures into the movies, his years as an independent entertainer and his eventual switch from show business to real estate. Bogue, who wrote this unpretentious autobiography with his sister, tells of a life full of high jinks and fun.
Ishkabibble
Author: Carlene Painter
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434363708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Zachary was angry! He was in trouble again for using bad language. Never did he imagine that a ride on his bike would lead to a solution. "Ishkabibble" was his answer! "Ishkabibble" provides an entertaining and important lesson in anger management. It is an adventure that can be enjoyed as an independent reader, or as a read-aloud. Interest level: 5-9 years Reading level: 2.5
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434363708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Zachary was angry! He was in trouble again for using bad language. Never did he imagine that a ride on his bike would lead to a solution. "Ishkabibble" was his answer! "Ishkabibble" provides an entertaining and important lesson in anger management. It is an adventure that can be enjoyed as an independent reader, or as a read-aloud. Interest level: 5-9 years Reading level: 2.5
Kabibbles 1-2-3
Author: Amy R. Connelly
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 166322515X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Kabibbles 1-2-3 is a learning book for toddler and early pre-school levels. Mrs. Connelly, a pre-school teacher, uses rhyme, repetition and silly critters to catch a child’s attention and help in the recognition of their first numbers. Snuggle close and enjoy.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 166322515X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Kabibbles 1-2-3 is a learning book for toddler and early pre-school levels. Mrs. Connelly, a pre-school teacher, uses rhyme, repetition and silly critters to catch a child’s attention and help in the recognition of their first numbers. Snuggle close and enjoy.
He Done Her Wrong
Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453232885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Goodness has nothing to do with it as a hard-luck private eye in 1940s Hollywood takes a case for legendary silver screen sex symbol Mae West. In the early days of talking pictures, the greatest sex symbol in Hollywood was the platinum-blonde bad girl Mae West. Naughty and gorgeous with a razor-sharp wit, West wrote her own material and controlled her own image—until the censors came in and outlawed the racy repartee that made her famous. By the forties, her star has faded and she’s banking everything on a scandalous memoir that she hopes will set the stage for a comeback. When the only copy is stolen, she calls in a favor from an old beau—the brother of wisecracking PI Toby Peters. When Mae West asks, “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” you don’t say no. Peters arrives at a party at West’s house, where every guest is a man dressed as the woman herself—and one of them may be the thief who stole the manuscript. But before he can tear off the culprit’s wig, Peters finds that this is about more than theft. The crook wants to destroy Mae West, and he has murder on his mind. The star of Edgar Award winner Stuart M. Kaminsky’s fun forties private eye series, “Peters is a good guy with a sense of humor, and every appearance he makes is a welcome one” (Booklist).
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453232885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Goodness has nothing to do with it as a hard-luck private eye in 1940s Hollywood takes a case for legendary silver screen sex symbol Mae West. In the early days of talking pictures, the greatest sex symbol in Hollywood was the platinum-blonde bad girl Mae West. Naughty and gorgeous with a razor-sharp wit, West wrote her own material and controlled her own image—until the censors came in and outlawed the racy repartee that made her famous. By the forties, her star has faded and she’s banking everything on a scandalous memoir that she hopes will set the stage for a comeback. When the only copy is stolen, she calls in a favor from an old beau—the brother of wisecracking PI Toby Peters. When Mae West asks, “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” you don’t say no. Peters arrives at a party at West’s house, where every guest is a man dressed as the woman herself—and one of them may be the thief who stole the manuscript. But before he can tear off the culprit’s wig, Peters finds that this is about more than theft. The crook wants to destroy Mae West, and he has murder on his mind. The star of Edgar Award winner Stuart M. Kaminsky’s fun forties private eye series, “Peters is a good guy with a sense of humor, and every appearance he makes is a welcome one” (Booklist).
Ishkabibble Unafraid
Author: Cindi Handley Goodeaux
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681607436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Ishkabibble is a monster afraid of the sounds in his closet. When he meets a human afraid of monsters, is there really anything to be afraid of after all? Ishkabibble Unafraid is a fun rhyming story about overcoming fears and making new friends.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681607436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Ishkabibble is a monster afraid of the sounds in his closet. When he meets a human afraid of monsters, is there really anything to be afraid of after all? Ishkabibble Unafraid is a fun rhyming story about overcoming fears and making new friends.
The Show Won't Go On
Author: Jeff Abraham
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641602201
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
There has never been a show business book quite like The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. The Show Won't Go On covers almost every genre of entertainment, and is full of unearthed anecdotes, exclusive interviews, colorful characters, and ironic twists. With dozens of heart-stopping stories, it's the perfect book to dip into on any page.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641602201
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
There has never been a show business book quite like The Show Won't Go On, the first comprehensive study of a bizarre phenomenon: performers who died onstage. The Show Won't Go On covers almost every genre of entertainment, and is full of unearthed anecdotes, exclusive interviews, colorful characters, and ironic twists. With dozens of heart-stopping stories, it's the perfect book to dip into on any page.
The Ecstatic, Or, Homunculus
Author: Victor D. LaValle
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Something is wrong with Anthony, and it's getting worse. Schizophrenia runs in his family's blood, picking off an uncle here, a mother there, and has now found a home in Anthony's mind. The women in his life -- his mother, sister, and grandmother -- bring him home to Queens and try to fix him, but his presence slowly turns their home into a semi-suburban asylum.Anthony narrates the skewed story of his family's surreal adventures in an exploitative world, from black-market employers and neighborhood loansharks to bogus beauty pageants and bootleg medical clinics. In the tradition of misfit picaresques from The World According to Garp to Confederacy of Dunces, this is the story of a family trying to save themselves from the ravenous world and their own unraveling minds.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Something is wrong with Anthony, and it's getting worse. Schizophrenia runs in his family's blood, picking off an uncle here, a mother there, and has now found a home in Anthony's mind. The women in his life -- his mother, sister, and grandmother -- bring him home to Queens and try to fix him, but his presence slowly turns their home into a semi-suburban asylum.Anthony narrates the skewed story of his family's surreal adventures in an exploitative world, from black-market employers and neighborhood loansharks to bogus beauty pageants and bootleg medical clinics. In the tradition of misfit picaresques from The World According to Garp to Confederacy of Dunces, this is the story of a family trying to save themselves from the ravenous world and their own unraveling minds.
Fat Girl, Terrestrial
Author: Kellie Wells
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 1573661708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, Fat Girl, Terrestrial is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love. In Kingdom Come, Kansas, a town from which children once mysteriously disappeared, there lives a giant woman. Wallis Armstrong is not a pituitary mutant or a person battling a rare medical condition; she’s just an improbably large woman ill at ease in a world built for shrimps. Paradoxically, Wallis builds miniatures of crime scenes, and her specialty is staged suicides. She constructed her first diorama as a child when a boy in her fourth-grade class went suddenly missing. Wallis’s brother, Obie, believes the only explanation for his sister’s amplitude is that she is the incarnation of God on Earth, and he is her one true ardent disciple. Until he too disappears. Kellie Wells’s story of Wallis’s odyssey through this tight-fitting world is a churlish meditation on the existence and nature of God as well as an exploration of the treachery of childhood and the destructive nature of the most blindly abiding kind of love: that of a love-struck brother for a big sister, a disciple for an unwilling prophet, and a bone-weary god for a savage and disappointing flock.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 1573661708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, Fat Girl, Terrestrial is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love. In Kingdom Come, Kansas, a town from which children once mysteriously disappeared, there lives a giant woman. Wallis Armstrong is not a pituitary mutant or a person battling a rare medical condition; she’s just an improbably large woman ill at ease in a world built for shrimps. Paradoxically, Wallis builds miniatures of crime scenes, and her specialty is staged suicides. She constructed her first diorama as a child when a boy in her fourth-grade class went suddenly missing. Wallis’s brother, Obie, believes the only explanation for his sister’s amplitude is that she is the incarnation of God on Earth, and he is her one true ardent disciple. Until he too disappears. Kellie Wells’s story of Wallis’s odyssey through this tight-fitting world is a churlish meditation on the existence and nature of God as well as an exploration of the treachery of childhood and the destructive nature of the most blindly abiding kind of love: that of a love-struck brother for a big sister, a disciple for an unwilling prophet, and a bone-weary god for a savage and disappointing flock.
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780304366361
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780304366361
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Raised on Radio
Author: Gerald Nachman
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307828948
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
For everybody "raised on radio"—and that's everybody brought up in the thirties, forties, and early fifties—this is the ultimate book, combining nostalgia, history, judgment, and fun, as it reminds us of just how wonderful (and sometimes just how silly) this vanished medium was. Of course, radio still exists—but not the radio of The Lone Ranger and One Man's Family, of Our Gal Sunday and Life Can Be Beautiful, of The Goldbergs and Amos 'n' Andy, of Easy Aces, Vic and Sade, and Bob and Ray, of The Shadow and The Green Hornet, of Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, and Baby Snooks, of the great comics, announcers, sound-effects men, sponsors, and tycoons. In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years—as a boy he did his homework to the sound of Jack Benny and Our Miss Brooks—takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well as the not-so-great and not-great-at-all. Nachman analyzes the many genres that radio deployed or invented, from the soap opera to the sitcom to the quiz show, zooming in to study closely key performers like Benny, Bob Hope, and Fred Allen, while pulling back to an overview that manages to be both comprehensive and seductively specific. Here is a book that is generous, instructive, and sinfully readable—and that brings an era alive as it salutes an extraordinary American phenomenon.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307828948
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
For everybody "raised on radio"—and that's everybody brought up in the thirties, forties, and early fifties—this is the ultimate book, combining nostalgia, history, judgment, and fun, as it reminds us of just how wonderful (and sometimes just how silly) this vanished medium was. Of course, radio still exists—but not the radio of The Lone Ranger and One Man's Family, of Our Gal Sunday and Life Can Be Beautiful, of The Goldbergs and Amos 'n' Andy, of Easy Aces, Vic and Sade, and Bob and Ray, of The Shadow and The Green Hornet, of Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, and Baby Snooks, of the great comics, announcers, sound-effects men, sponsors, and tycoons. In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years—as a boy he did his homework to the sound of Jack Benny and Our Miss Brooks—takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well as the not-so-great and not-great-at-all. Nachman analyzes the many genres that radio deployed or invented, from the soap opera to the sitcom to the quiz show, zooming in to study closely key performers like Benny, Bob Hope, and Fred Allen, while pulling back to an overview that manages to be both comprehensive and seductively specific. Here is a book that is generous, instructive, and sinfully readable—and that brings an era alive as it salutes an extraordinary American phenomenon.