Word: contralto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Mr. Lincoln had a world première on Decoration Day in the Fox-Lincoln Theatre in Springfield. Two trainloads of guest critics, Hollywood columnists and cinema stars attended, Springfield fat-purses paid $3.30 for orchestra seats, the rest paid the usual 40?. All heard Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, hired by Producer Zanuck for $6,000, sing America. Only complaint Springfield had against the film was that Abe Lincoln arrived in Springfield not on muleback, but on horseback...
...corsages, the music clubbers' conventions involve a more useful activity. Since 1915 the Federation has given some $30,000 in prizes to young U. S. musicians. Winners last week in convention contests were Pianist Samuel Sorin ($1,000 and a chance to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra), Contralto Martha Lipton ($1,000 and a spot on a Firestone radio program), Violinists Bernard Kundell and Marion Head ($250 apiece...
...undisputed first lady of radio as of 1939 is 235-lb., 29-year-old Contralto Kate Smith. For eight successful radio years Kate Smith has used her booming, unschooled voice, plus occasional bursts of hearty Americanism to sell millions of dollars worth of cigars, automobiles, coffee and, since 1937, General Foods cake flour, baking powder and salt. From her paychecks she has tucked away $1,000,000, mostly in Government bonds, but she is still unmarried, lives alone. She has won 15,000,000 weekly listeners, but she can count scarcely a dozen intimate friends...
...Mammy, California, Here I Come, Pretty Baby. Though Plugger Faye's My Man lacks the poignant tragicomedy with which homely Fannie Brice invested it, her cool contralto and cozy curves are still cinemusically perfect. Some of the numbers old & new she ably croons and sighs: I'm Just Wild About Harry, I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak (the last by Mack Gordon & Harry Revel...
...Cordell Hull, Mrs. Henry Wallace & Miss Frances Perkins played hostess at the White House for the D. A. R., from which Mrs. Roosevelt resigned because of its refusal to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall. Mrs. Roosevelt was en route by air from Seattle to Boston, to attend the funeral of her brother Gracie Hall's son Daniel, killed flying in Mexico...