Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage show this week is decidedly the brighter half of the offerings. Kitty Carlisle who has stepped gracefully from New Orleans to front line chorus to Hollywood and the arms of Bing Crosby sings in manner attractive. Phil Cook hasn't changed in all these years. There is also a bicycle stunt of considerable skill...
...show entitled "Sweet Music." For those who enjoy his singing the picture will prove entertaining, for he bursts into song about every ten minutes. The plot is unexciting, but thoroughly innocuous. The stage show is good and features Mitzi Green, who given several excellent imitations of screen stars. The chorus presents some good dance routines and the stage show is livened up by some really funny comedians...
Because her predecessors were ladies of considerable theatrical importance, May Etheridge was widely hailed as "the first chorus girl duchess." This was a quibble. She had been a chorus girl since the age of 13, but when she met Lord Edward Fitzgerald she had just become leading lady of Princess Caprice at the Shaftesbury, and he was not yet the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland...
...ancestral estates have always had more honors than cash behind them. The pair spent their honeymoon in a Lake Ontario log cabin. Lord Edward returned to serve gallantly through the War with the Irish Guards, go bankrupt in 1918 owing ?300,000. Already separated from his chorus girl Duchess, he succeeded to the Dukedom in 1922. To recoup his fortunes the Duke of Leinster sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc." The Duchess fell in love with a 26-year-old cook named Stanley Williams...
...compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came in the second act for which he discarded his spectacles, donned baggy blue trousers, black top boots, a silver-trimmed cape and a pancake hat. Thus disguised as a soldier, he proved himself an able baritone with his one big line...