Word: orchestras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since it opened its doors as a citadel for Society half a century ago. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week abandoned formality, became the scene of an experiment with popular-priced opera. Three dollars bought an orchestra seat that in the winter season sold for $7. Price-range for 1,500 places was from 25? to $1.50. Result was that customers popped up who had never been inside the Metropolitan before. Though the Company's headline singers were gone for the summer, there was a Carmen complete with horses, a Rigoletto and a sprightly...
Featuring the sparkling rhythms of the Hudson-DeLange orchestra with tuneful vocal interpretations by Ruth Gaylor, the Annual Freshman Jubilee will start at 10 o'clock tonight in the Union...
...orchestra will play sets of four or five numbers lasting amount 20 minutes with five minute intermissions. In these sets will be a variety of tunes, varying from the hottest swing numbers to the slowest waltzes...
WILL OSBORNE, the orchestra leader, has only a slight connection with Yale. He once sued Rudy Vallee, Yale Alumnus, for a sum running past the $200,000 mark. Rudy, Will averred, had copied his crooning from Will Osborne. At that time Will's voice and vocal manner was so much like Rudy's that the radio public could rarely tell them apart...
...knowing who came first, the court threw out the case. Rudy Vallee waxed more famous, and Will Osborn, who sounded like him, bore in silence the onus of an imitator. But Will has left St. Andrews College (in his native Toronto) to become an orchestra leader of note. He worked incessantly on special trombone effects, relied less on his voice. A year ago dancers began to notice that Will Osborne had a sweet swing to his playing. Today Rudy Vallee is known chiefly for his radio variety hour will Osborne is known for his band...