Word: cabarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music. In the U. S., the human voice is more than this-it is the foundation of a great and prosperous trade. Behind the famous opera stars and song recitalists (the Rothschilds, the Astorbilts of their profession) there is a vast soviet of vocal students, church sopranos, ballad singers, cabaret songsters, 50,000 professional singers, male and female, and 250,000 assorted aspirants. Until recently the vocal industry was without a trade journal, but a fortnight ago the first issue of Singing, The Voice Magazine (Alfred Human,* Editor) appeared on the newsstands, was eagerly bought and discussed by the practitioners...
...gentlemen fell upon W. Franke Harling, the composer, as he was leaving the opera house and showered him with hugs and kisses. Composer Harling declared, in a trembling speech, that he was astounded. Nothing like that, he said, had ever happened to him-not even when he was writing cabaret revues in New York. But this incident and the opera-an amiable work, catchy, shrewd, imitative-brought him to the attention of Arthur Hopkins, famed theatrical manager. Mr. Hopkins has never yet produced a musical piece, but he stated four years ago that when the time was ripe he would...
...undressed at others. Broad farce and slim figures alternate. The U. S. contributions are as usual and a little better than usual. About the French there is not much to report except that Yvonne George sings her songs. Mlle. George is to many people the greatest European revue and cabaret artist, only excepting Raquel Meller. To miss her is to miss one of the most, if not the most, extraordinary experience to be had at any revue this season...
Bright Lights. Charles Ray has attempted to come back. He has picked one of his old country cousin stories with a tattered straw hat on its head. Into his peaceful rural life comes a cabaret girl from Manhattan. The story is trivial and- truth be told-Mr. Ray is not so good as he used...
...Thaw, it is true, had done little to command newspaper attention beyond escorting a young woman to a cabaret-a procedure technically innocent. But out of the sinister personality of the aging rake, the Mirror's editors drew material for a startling story...