Word: barbershops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blasphemy was uttered last week: Maestro Arturo Toscanini was criticized out loud. Beaky, bespectacled Sigmund Spaeth, "Tune Detective," barbershop balladeer and general musical quidnunc, told a Los Angeles convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs...
...promote close harmony-as she is sung by Saturday-night whiskey tenors and beery baritones-a device was on sale in Manhattan last week which threatened to bring Sweet Adeline within the reach of all but the tone-deaf. "Listen-n-Sing" phonograph records teach barbershop harmonizing by taking it apart...
...Duncan D. Sutphen Jr., Manhattan adman and onetime Princeton glee clubber. The songs are sung by an NBC quartet, whose members felt self-conscious singing separately; the second bass quacked and cracked through five tries before he got it right. If the first records sell, sea chanties and tougher barbershop tunes like Sylvia will be recorded...
...nothing for rehearsals, and the union looks the other way. One reason: Biago Casciano, first horn and librarian of the orchestra, is president of the union local. He is also a barber. When Pianist Marcus Gordon arrived in El Paso to play with the symphony, he dropped into the barbershop for a trim, was amazed at being asked some shrewd questions about phrasing in the concerto of the evening...
...Rome the newspapers were full of vague portents as to Japan's part in the coming grand offensive (see col. 2). Yosuke Matsuoka chose to treat his trip more as a holiday. On his first day out of Tokyo, at Yamada, he walked down the street to a barbershop and had his hair trimmed around the neck and ears. Later he met reporters and told them that he had given up wearing his hair Prussian-style, an affectation he assumed when Japan resigned from the League of Nations...