Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five he was taken to see Rimsky-Korsakov's Tsar Sultan. After one hearing he could and did sing long passages from the opera. Sometimes he would sit at the piano, strike a chord and lisp: "That's the stars." Sometimes he struck a treble note, said: "That's somebody looking out the window." At 13, he entered Leningrad Conservatory. At 19, he composed his First Symphony (one of the most popular) as part of his course...
...radio is to be reformed, says Mrs. Gordon, the public must "become more articulate and not only condemn but commend." She herself cheerfully commends such programs as Mutual's Sing a Song of Safety, Columbia's School of the Air of the Americas, and Blue's erstwhile Music Appreciation Hour. She admits what many a reformer has discovered for himself, that educators and women's clubs cannot put on better children's programs than radio now offers. That is not their function. Instead, says Mrs. Gordon, they should spur radio to far greater efforts...
...seven long years since Soprano MacDonald and Baritone Eddy made a ten-strike with Victor Herbert's sure-fire romantic operetta, Naughty Marietta. I Married An Angel, which is not equipped with the kind of songs (Spring Is Here, I Married An Angel) they can sing, is their eighth picture together. It may well be their last-unless M.G.M. renews green-eyed Songbird MacDonald's golden contract...
...hold-up murder of 52-year-old Susan Flora Reich in Manhattan, self-dramatizing Madeline Webb went to prison for life, self-dramatizing Eli Shonbrun, impassive John Cullen went to Sing Sing to await death in the chair...
Died. Jessie Bond, 89, last but one of the original Savoyards,* player of numerous Gilbert & Sullivan roles (including Iolanthe, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance) ; in Worthing, England. She retired in 1896. Only surviving Savoyard: Durward Lely of Glasgow...