Word: minstrell
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...celebrant of girlhood, roses and death. Gathering roses one day for a lovely virgin from Egypt (dry source of all cults of death), he scratched his hand. Shortly afterwards it became clear that Rilke had leukemia, a hideously painful disease of the white corpuscles. This century's great minstrel of death, who dreaded the very word, met it in complete integrity, refusing anesthetic, floated upon the sumptuous hospitality of friends whom he refused to see. "Except for the presence of the doctor and the nurse he died, as he had lived, alone, surrounded by every care and comfort...
Sued for Divorce. Harry Richman, 45, veteran revue and nightclub minstrel; by thrice-married ex-Follies Beauty Hazel Forbes, 31, whose second husband, Tooth-Powder Tycoon Paul Owen Richmond, left her his Dr. Lyons' fortune in 1932; in Stuart...
...cajolery, used to warn him: "You are trotting down to Hell on a fast horse in a porcupine saddle." The boy broke away and wandered, sounded the depths of dereliction in "that gay capital of the sporting world, St. Louis." He married, became bandmaster of Mahara's Minstrel Men. His story of those seasons is a homesick, gaily colored set of lantern slides about a form of entertainment that has vanished...
...story is a simple vehicle for the songs which are the reason for the picture. Harry Lauder is a traveling minstrel with a small band of friends. Misfortunes befall the little troupe as they play their way through the country. But these are incidental to the real part of the movie which comes when Harry Lauder dons his kilts and grabs his crooked came to give a song. The chances are that you won't be able to catch all he sings, but you'll get the point through his sly winks and infectious laughs. The songs are quaint...
...Mayfair. Actually this Mayfairian tone is something Gertie only gradually acquired. She did not come to the theatre from England's upper crust. Born in London on July 4, 1898, baptized as Gertrude Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen, she was the daughter of a Danish interlocutor of a traveling minstrel show, and an Irish actress...