Word: accompanist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Eva Tanguay, 48, plump, red-haired vaudeville comedienne, who played Cedric Errol in Little Lord Fauntleroy; to one Allan Parado, 25, her Hungarian accompanist, secretly, a month...
...knew well. . . . They sing William Jennings Bryan's Last Fight, The Convict and the Rose, The Wreck of the Shenandoah, Little Mary Thagan -and many another sad story. All the tunes are alike, never departing from the few chords within reach of the unschooled accompanist. Every tale has its moral lesson. In the Bryan song, the singer warns: If you want to go to Heaven, When your time on earth is through, You must be as Mr. Bryan, You will fail unless you do. The villain that brings little Mary Thagan to her "fatal doom" is made an object...
...Manhattan, Alexander Stock, concert pianist and accompanist for Metropolitan Opera singers, was riding in a Yellow Taxicab ("COURTESY ? HEATED ? LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger...
Married. Pauline Heifetz, sister of famed violinist Jascha Heifetz; to Samuel Chotzinoff, music critic of the New York World, former accompanist for Efram Zimbalist and Jascha Heifetz; at Port Chester, N. Y., secretly, a fortnight...
...University Glee Club will give a concert at Bradford Academy tonight. Miss Elizabeth Worcester, Radcliffe '24, will be the soloist. F. W. Ramseyer '26, accompanist of the club, will give two groups of pfano solos. Among the pieces to be sung by the club is "O Gladsome Light" by A. T. Davison...