The Longo residence at 3906A Wyoming Street bears evidence of its musical occupants. A grand piano, drums, cymbals and a saxophone suggest the supremacy of music, and even Polly (the parrot) in the kitchen is music-minded. She renders her own interpretation of “School Days,” the tuneful number which introduces the Hugo Schools of Music to radio audiences. In fact, one almost expects music from the typewriter on which Margaret taps out her business school assignments.

(Source: St. Louis Globe-Democrat Sunday Magazine, September 7, 1930)

Bunny is holding the customized Gibson Florentine that had her name spelled out in rhinestones on the peghead. This fine instrument was purchased by Mel Bay upon her death in 1963 and featured on the cover of his Tenor Banjo Method book in 1968 as a tribute to her.

“She now plays both the tenor and plectrum or long-neck banjo, which is extremely difficult to master. The average man cannot play it because the reach is so long. Her repertoire includes more than one hundred memorized pieces and she specializes in novelty interpretations of all types of music from jazz to classical.”

(Source: St. Louis Globe-Democrat Sunday Magazine, September 7, 1930)

Page 1 of 2: This high school English paper was written on January 19, 1926, when Bunny was 16. She discusses the development of “Classical Jazz.”

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This article appeared in the May & June 1933 issue of The Guild Reporter, the official organ of The American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists. It is a notice of Bunny’s appearance at the Guild Convention.

This Guild Festival Concert schedule dated June 27, 1933 was reported in The Guild Reporter of May-June, 1933. Bunny performed two tenor banjo solos: Heebie Jeebies by Harry Reser, and At the Baby Parade, a “Popular Novelty” song.