Word: liza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hall have begun to hear it. Drummer Buddy Schutz and trombonist Don Matteson are two of the best. Besides having a marvelous classical background, one of tenor saxman Herby Haymer's joys in life is to work in things like "Hymn to the Sun" in arrangements of "Liza"--also making faces that only a mother could love or a jitterbug appreciate...
Lady Jane Kingdom (Frances Starr) runs her gardens, chickens and doddering professorial husband satisfactorily, but soon after the curtain rises begins to have trouble with her children. Her daughter Liza (Lila Lee, oldtime cinemactress trying for a legitimate comeback) is a bobbed-haired nymphomaniac consorting with a London gossip writer who carries cocaine and an automatic. And Daughter-in-law Sybil (Frieda Inescort) thinks she is understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity...
...Gershwin's agile, rhythmic music on its own terms. They had heard before The Rhapsody in Blue, the sly American in Paris, the workman-like Concerto in F. From familiar Gershwin shows came the overture to "Of Thee I Sing," "Wintergreen for President," and a medley of "Fascinating Rhythm." "Liza," "The Man I Love," "I Got Rhythm." New to the Stadium were the other two numbers, conducted by Albert Coates: the highbrow Second Rhapsody, in which the metropolis is typified by insistent rivet-noises; and a new Rumba which George Gershwin completed last month. He got the idea last February...
Died. George Henry Hathaway, 86, president since 1903 of Redpath Lyceum Bureau Inc., one of the oldest chautauqua bureaus; after a fall last fortnight; in Boston, Mass. He booked as lecturers Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Humorist Mark Twain, Preacher Henry Ward Beecher; Singers Liza Lehmann and Lillian Nordica...
...home . . . recruit the life of the sitting-room and promote the simple amusements of the home which long have languished." N. B. C. sends out free charts to all applicants whereby they can pick out notes on the keyboard, learn immediately to play simple tunes like "Lil'l Liza Jane" and "Music in the Air" without spending tedious weeks on scales...