Word: blake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Called The Voice of Poetry, it consists of six phonograph records* containing recordings of 30 English poems, recited by English Actress Edith Evans. A well-chosen anthology, it contains such favorite pieces as Shakespeare's sonnet ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought . . ."), Blake's The Tiger, Lewis Carroll's Father William, John Masefield's Cargoes. What lifted the hackles on troubled U. S. listeners' necks was not the voice of the poets but the dying-swan voice of Edith Evans...
...times were slow because of the poor weather conditions," commented Coach Blake after the races. Blake said that poor weather has been about the only dark cloud on the singles horizon this spring...
Born. To James Blake Rogers, 23, and Marguerite Astrea Kemmler Rogers, 20: an 8-lb. son, first grandchild of the late Will Rogers; in Los Angeles. Name: James Kemmler Rogers...
...Stand Up and a Fight," co-starring Robert Taylor and Wallace Beery, is another fairly successful effort to make a man out of the ladies' delight. From a southern plantation where Taylor, as Blake Cantrell, an idly rich orphan, is presiding over a hunt meet, the scene shifts rapidly to the roisterous frontier rivalry of a stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds...
Just before he died in 1827 he drew a sketch of his wife, who always called him "Mr. Blake." Dying, according to Mrs. Blake, "he began to sing Hallelujahs and songs of joy and triumph, loudly and with ecstatic energy. His bursts of gladness made the walls resound...