Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
...Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres, whose frequent sound-offs in news letters from Cleveland Trust Co. are the favorite economic reading of most U. S. tycoons, this was all so much balderdash. Remarking on the railroad crisis, stagnation of new building, lack of substantial upturn in automobile production, fall in security prices, increase in unemployment and lack of a spring upturn. Colonel Ayres decided that the present lull is only the end of the first stage of a major depression. Gloomed he: "The physical volume of industrial production appears to have dropped to more than 40% below the computed normal level...
...currently trying to have the Supreme Court pass on his application for citizenship, which has been refused because, abiding by the tenets of his religion, he will take no oath to bear arms. Son John will take no such oath either. He studied at Brown University under Dr. Leonard Carmichael, went along with Carmichael to the University of Rochester, where he expects to receive his Ph.D. this June. Thereafter he will study medicine at Northwestern, specializing in the visual acuity of human infants...
Because it was made in 1927, it is a silent picture. Leonard Bernstein '38 will provide the piano accompaniment...
...listened with his fellow judges to 707 auditions, announced the winners for 1937-38. Presented with a contract, $1,000 and a silver plaque apiece were handsome, smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought up in his Russian-born father's fur business, studied singing for five years before presenting himself as a contestant, sings today in five languages...