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...contract. By the maxim that anyone who pleases the client is a radio success, Alice Joy is made. She sings over one of the biggest hook-ups in a series which will cost Prince Albert approximately $1,000,000. Her songs, like Minstrel Downey's, are of the mellow, persuasive sort. An occasional old-fashioned ballad supposedly represents the real Alice Joy. a simple, ruddy-cheeked, home-loving girl who adores flowers and ivy-covered churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pipe Dream Girl | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...great speaker, a mellow and winning orator, James Ramsay MacDonald spoke long and loud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ramsay & Seaham | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Minor Burble, As the Prime Minister opened a protect-the-beauties-of-our countryside exhibition in London last week, he said: "If you want to be horrified by a broad, straight, brutal road, which if it lasted 500 years would never acquire a mellow, lovable personality ... go up and look down from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: J.R.M. | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Nora Bayes, Sam Bernard, Hazel Dawn, Al Jolson and some others are sitting with Diamond Jim and Lillian, a quiet, friendly supper party with wit and wine. Miss Russell asks Miss Bayes to sing. Miss Bayes, reincarnated in electric yet mellow Ruth Etting, arises simply and simply sings "Shine on Harvest Moon." Hardened revue-goers call it the smash song of this summer on Broadway, all Little Shows and Band Wagons notwithstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Good Old Follies | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Brahms's Sonata in G by Violinist Toscha Seidel and Pianist Arthur Loeser (Columbia, $6)?An expert pair plays Brahms in his tenderest, most mellow mood. The recording is excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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