Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band. He toured the California mining camps with one Professor Jerome who gave the miners dancing lessons. He played once in a brothel. He played in the first Paul Whiteman orchestra when jazz, unknown in the East, was starting its swift, insidious advance on the Barbary Coast. A good musician, a born improviser, he was soon mak-ing all the Whiteman arrangements. Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin to write him some music for a serious concert. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was a piano solo. Grofe scored...
...Miracle Man," the show which brought stardom to Thomas Meighan, Rence Adores, and Lon Chaney; "Fireman Save My Child," formerly a Beery-Hatton vehicle; "Smilin' Through," in which Norma Shearer will do the part once taken by Norma Talmadge; and "The Man Who Played God," a story about a musician who becomes deal and learns to read lips which George Arliss will star in again as he did almost ten years...
...arrested for murder. Everything looked very black indeed and Dick might have swung for it had not the British sense of justice, ably abetted by Author Young, rescued our hero from an undeserved fate. The Author, Francis Brett Young. 47, even more versatile than William McFee. is a novelist-musician-doctor. He practiced literature and medicine simultaneously, for a long time was more successful in diagnosing private ailments than the public taste. During the War he worked hard in the Royal Army Medical Corps, was invalided back from East Africa a 60% disability from malaria. After the Armistice...
...bewildered by his good fortune, Ormandy set out for Philadelphia, conducted so expertly that even Stokowski addicts were enthusiastic. Minneapolis, hearing of his achievement, immediately summoned him to substitute this week for Belgian Henri Verbrugghen, also ailing. Minneapolis will find him as Philadelphia did, a diligent, painstaking musician, free from mannerisms. His thin, blond hair and light blue eyes are perfect counterparts of a self-effacing personality. But Conductor Ormandy is no longer pale. He uses a sun-ray lamp diligently, wears a becoming all-year...
...when the War was over a famous Russian musician brought his orchestra to the city. Mendel heard his friends talking about it, thought nothing of it until the door opened and in walked the musician, inquiring for one Mendel Singer. It was Menuchim, whom pain had made wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong. Moreover he was prosperous. His troubles over, Mendel Singer prayed again...