Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, March 6 there appeared an article dealing with the refusal of the Daughters of the American Revolution to permit the Negress Anderson to sing in Constitution Hall in Washington. In this article, Washington was referred to as "provincial." This was spiteful and entirely unjustified. Remarks of that nature show that all small people do not live in small towns...
...matter of fact, there is a colored theatre, the Howard, which could have been used without arousing any protest as it is a fit place for a Negress to sing...
Reinhold A. Faust, 74, of No. 2517 North Richmond Street, Chicago, last week told where he was on the night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present...
Greatest impersonation of the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin was the fear-racked 17th-Century Tsar in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. In 1908, Chaliapin was the first man to sing Boris outside of Russia, in 1929 the last to sing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir...
Awake and Sing (by Clifford Odets; produced by The Group Theatre). Clifford Odets, four years ago a rank newcomer to Broadway, last week had conferred upon him the theatrical equivalent of the Order of Merit: his first full-length play was enthusiastically revived. For two reasons Awake and Sing was worth reviving: 1) it casts light on what he has written since; 2) it remains his best play...