Robert Preston Explains Why Little Winthrop Ronny Howard Opie Cunningham Could Never Be A Really Great Cornet Player

Robert Preston Explains Why Little Winthrop Ronny Howard Opie Cunningham Could Never Be A Really Great Cornet Player

As he explains to his mother, the Widow Paroo, that unfortunately, all the really great cornet players were Irish ("O'Reilly, O'Klein, O'Mendez"). To which she replies in an Irish accent as thick as the Blarney Stone, "Why Professor, we ARE Irish!" And another sale is made in River City, Iowa.