Word: lopez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 22 (who last April was divorced from Spanish Cinemactor Rafael Lopez de Onate), fourth of the five daughters of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (see p. 25) by the first two of his three wives; to William A. Hinshaw, 22, French horn player for the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra; in Los Angeles...
Impartial critics wondered what would happen if Lyricist Cook's hallelujah was combined with Bandleader Lopez' squeakless tune...
...singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments as "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air." For several months he hammered away at a peaceful-plowshare version. Last fortnight he published it. The revised text...
Last winter it was discovered that Vincent Lopez, pudgy, decorous danceband leader, had been brooding long and heavily over the unsingableness of The Star-Spangled Banner. Suggested by Bandleader Lopez was a new version of his own, with its high notes pruned to fit the limitations of the average voice (TIME, Feb. 7). Bandleader Lopez' version, duly performed in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, caused very mild applause. But last week, as Congress was hurrying toward adjournment, publicity-loving Congressman Emanuel Celler (N. Y.) urged official acceptance of Lopez' "squeakless" anthem. Said Congressman Celler: "Why not enable everybody...
...jitterbugs trucked in the aisles, clambered out of the grandstand, shagged across the cinder track, yelled "Floy Floy!" "Jive it, cats!" "Get in the groove!" The five-hour-45-minute concert was played by 25 bands, among whose leaders were: Rudy Vallee, Duke Ellington, Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa, Vincent Lopez. Absent was Killer Diller Benny Goodman (see p. 22), who will hold his own swing fiesta in Madison Square Garden, June...