Word: halle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Glee Club who did not attend yesterday's rehearsal may get their tickets for supper and dancing at Eliot House before one o'clock today at Mr. Morse's office in Lehman Hall. Each man may have two tickets...
...Symphony Hall until July 2 will continue the "Pops," Boston's unique contribution to popular entertainment and the spread of good music. The orchestra under Arthur Fiedler is invariably good, and although there are special programs on special nights, each performance runs the gamut from classic to modern. Harvard football songs are occasional encores, and dance music is presented now and again, although no attempt is made to compete with Mr. Goodman, now on the Ritz Roof...
Marriage Announced. Jon Hall (real name: Charles Locher, pronounced Lo-shay), 25, muscular, part-Tahitian cinemactor (Hurricane), second cousin of Hurricane's co-author James Norman Hall; to Frances Langford, 25, cinema singer (Palm Springs, Bom to Dance, Hollywood Hotel) who was a soprano until a tonsillectomy made her a contralto; in Prescott, Ariz.; secretly, fortnight...
...Kraft Music Hall program has the reputation of going to considerable lengths for a gag. Not long ago its headliner Baritone Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, observed, after a bazooka solo by Bob Burns, that the rendition had been "as dirty as the inside of a Russian horse doctor's valise." In somewhat the same free-style spirit, last week Kraft Announcer Ken Carpenter ad libbed at the end of the program during which Mr. Crosby had played Beautiful Ohio on a saw, that "Cuddle Up a Little Closer is from The Three Twins and Beautiful Ohio from hunger...
American listeners last week were promised a weekly half-hour of assorted parlor games in the Town Hall Big Game Hunt, summer substitute for Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight. Old Vaudevillian Norman Frescott, who takes over from Allen July 6, claims that his program will be the most diverse and complicated ever. "The audience asks the announcer a question," facetiously says he, "the announcer puts a question to a guest star, who puts one to the band leader, who puts one to the soprano. And after the program, the sponsor puts...