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Lauritz Melchior, great Dane of the Metropolitan Opera, sang Open the Door, Richard on a Kay Kyser radio show and got a chromatic catcall from the president of the National Association of Schools of Music for "debasing his art." Pooh, retorted jovial Heldentenor Melchior. If the musical stuffed shirts wanted more blatant examples of undignified monkeyshines, he could refresh their memories. Once, he recalled, he sang a hillbilly song on the Fred Allen show; another time, he danced an Apache number in which he impersonated a female who could have mopped up on Briinnhilde...
Born. To James King Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 40, bandleader whose weekly radio hour (the College of Musical Knowledge) helped sell Lucky Strikes for seven years ; and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 26, whose photographs when she was Powers' highest-paid model helped sell Chesterfields: their first child, a daughter ; in Hollywood. Name : Kimberly Ann. Weight...
...Kyser, 40, drawling, corny Professor of Musical Knowledge, just back from a tour of the South Pacific, told the press he was through with radio. Said he: "I'm just so doggone tired. All I want to do is go back to Rocky Mount, N.C., and sit around with my 83-year-old mother and spit and whittle." His sponsor, American Tobacco Co., tartly reminded him that his radio show still has 26 months to run, hinted at a suit for breach of contract if he tried to quit. The Professor decided...
...Point's geopolitics expert ; after his graduation at West Point. Married. Barbara Jean Douglas, 21, only daughter of Plane Tycoon Donald Wills Douglas; and Lieut. William Bruce Arnold, 25, second son of General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Forces chief; in Los Angeles. Married. Band Leader James ("Kay") Kyser, 38, schmaltzy "Professor of Musical Knowledge"; and Georgia Ann ("Gorgeous Georgia") Carroll, 24, onetime highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl"), now Kyser's sweet-voiced vocalist; both for the first time; in Las Vegas, Nev. Died. Josef Beck, 49, Poland's unpopular, unscrupulous, prewar Foreign Minister; after...
...President James Knox Polk, 1818; Bandmaster James Kern ("Kay") Kyser, '28; Author Thomas Wolfe, '20 (the University is the "Old Catawba" of his Look Homeward Angel); Statesman Josephus Daniels, '85; Journalist Jonathan Worth Daniels...