Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International, Second Edition cost $1,300,000 to prepare. Prices range from $20 to $35. Because there are some 3,000,000 words in the English language, the editors could not hope to include every one. They defined croon and croon song, drew the line at crooner...
...satirizing Radio, as when ''Uncle Pete" (Allen Jenkins) elaborately professes to detest children, and a Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze'' by a brash, noisy scout (Pat O'Brien), the waiter fails dismally at his audition, later gets another chance when aided by a soap-hour singer (Ginger Rogers). The two love but are separated by O'Brien who does...
...Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play. In We're Not Dressing Miss Lombard's yacht is wrecked when her drunken uncle (Leon Errol) steers it on a reef. When the passengers reach land, Crooner Crosby masters the situation by cooking clams, building thatched huts...
...Follies girl because Florenz Ziegfeld once offered her a job she did not take. Last week she was described as returning from a career in Hollywood because, after the 1932 Olympics, she accepted a cinema contract that led to a crumb part in one picture and to marriage with Crooner Jarrett. Most of the other names and faces at Chicago last week were familiar-Anne Govednik of Chisolm, Minn., muscular and bright-eyed, who held the U. S. outdoor record for the 100-yd. breast stroke; Dorothy Poynton. a platinum blonde from Los Angeles with a wide, toothy smile...
...technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern receiving sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible to their narrow compass were the modulations of the crooner (an express specialization for the radio) or the stridencies of the more African jazz. But dance music is returning to melody, popular singing to full vocal range, and pari passu the more artistic euphonies are coming into their...