Word: singed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed guests, Walter Damrosch. who 50 years ago played accompaniments for Madame Gerster, told anecdotes to recall her invincible personality. Once in St. Louis she announced herself too ill to sing but a certificate was necessary to convince the audience. The physician pronounced just a slight inflammation of the epiglottis and, angry, Madame Gerster sang. His bill of $60 she refused to pay and two years later when she returned to St. Louis the doctor brought suit. But Gerster refused to go to court, said she was too ill. Obligingly then the good-natured judge moved court to her hotel...
...reminded of this by an earnest attack upon young Yale men contributed by Henry F. Pringle to the current "Harper's." Mr. Pringle paints an appalling picture of the attitude of the young men who sing "For God, for country and for Yale." They are, it appears, "on the make." Before going to college they begin looking for prominent roommates; at college they arise at 5 o'clock in the morning to seek advertising for "The Yale News," and they spend their week ends on Long Island and Park Avenue, ostensibly dancing with debutantes but really seeking the acquaintance...
...sopranos any who are capable of filling, but not bursting, the trousers of the count, of being funny and at the same time handsome. There is one such at the Metropolitan, Jeritza; but she, always uncomfortable in trousers, does not like the role. Who, then, last week, was to sing Rosenkavalier, already once postponed, when Soprano Greta Stueckgold, who had been selected for the part last week, fell sick...
...Author has been seeing prisons from within for 25 years. He was president of the National Wardens' Association in 1922. Many a convict counts him a great & good friend. He works in shirtsleeves when going through a batch of Sing Sing statistics. Usually mild mannered, he becomes for short periods, about a dozen times a year, nervous,, irritable, troubled with insomnia...
...stories deserve to be perpetuated on the stage, with song-&-dancing. That is the purpose of The Houseboat on the Styx, that and moneymaking. Adam, Barnum, Captain Kidd. Sherlock Holmes and Cleopatra; Mrs. Noah, Sappho, Charon, Josephine and Sir Walter Raleigh-all the Bangsian characters come on deck to sing somewhat Gilbertian songs and utter up-to-the-hour Times Squarese. Blanche Ring as Queen Elizabeth shouts, when someone offers her a drink: "Swine!" "No," is the answer, " 'sapplejack." Its first evening, The Houseboat on the Styx mounted at moments to hilarity. Its songs, while not entirely novel, were...