Word: lorenzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paste, floor polish, cosmetics, etc. for 19 sponsors. For many of these spots B-S-H's great, straight-line script mill turned out at mass production prices Just Plain Bill, Second Husband, John's Other Wife, Romance of Helen Trent, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, Lorenzo Jones, Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas, Alias Jimmy Valentine, David Harum. All these were ghostwritten by some 14 anonymous authors in the names of Adman Frank Hummert and his wife, Anne...
Last year the Hummerts began sending scripts to London to be Anglicized and broadcast from Normandy and Luxemburg to British listeners. Anglicizing largely involved changing cops to bobbies, dollars to pounds, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round to London Merry-Go-Round, Lorenzo Jones to Marmaduke Brown, and most writers felt that some fame or profit from this rebroadcasting should come to them. But every script that went abroad was prudently marked, like those used in the U. S.: "Authors-Frank and Anne Hummert," and B-S-H picked up all the chips...
Giordano: Andrea Chenier (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting, with Linda Bruna Rasa, Luigi Marini and other singers; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Giordano's melodramatic, French-Revolutionary opera shows signs of coming back into U. S. favor. The present recording is rich in marinara sauce...
...State Department said it had asked in European capitals about reports that Germany had fortified Spain's Canary Islands which lie some 60 miles west of Africa on the air route from Europe to Brazil. Journalist Lorenzo Sosa and other Spanish Loyalist refugees from the Islands turned up with eyewitness accounts. Some told of being put to work on an air base at Las Palmas, said German cruisers had surveyed island harbors...
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Enrico Molinari, Mercedes Capsir, Enzo de Muro Lomanto and other artists, with orchestra and chorus from the La Scala Opera, Lorenzo Molajoli conducting; Columbia: 2 volumes, 26 sides). Most popular of all melodious old-time Italian operas, lustily performed by some of Italy's lustiest lilters. Judicious pruning has spared all the best bits. Highlight: Soprano Capsir's "Mad Scene...