Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hutton, 30, 25O-lb. dimpled tenor, paused in Manhattan on their way to Boston to conduct a nine-day revival. Sister Aimee was svelte and blonde; on her last visit, newsmen recalled, she was plump and redhaired. Of her husband she said: "The first time I heard David sing was four months ago. He was singing 'Nay, I Will Not Let You Go,' and as I listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised to give half the proceeds of her show...
...Constant Sinner. Three seasons ago Mae West's lusty singing of "Frankie and Johnnie" and the nostalgic flavor of bar and brothel scenes made Diamond Lil a Broadway hit. In The Constant Sinner, which Mae West wrote from her own novel, the bars and brothels are Harlem, 1931, and Mae West does not sing. But The Constant Sinner is no tame play, nor is it a dull play. Though handicapped by a more effete period, Mae West in some of her lines attains the lush bawdiness of her earlier production: "That dame [Cleopatra] went in for everything . . . she even went...
...Zimmerman) who was in Girl-Crazy, funny Willie & Eugene Howard (Willie is also late of Girl Crazy), a splendid dancer named Ray Bolger who has weak knees, sure feet. There is also Everett Marshall, who has brought his fine voice up the street from the Metropolitan Opera House to sing a long rigmarole called "That's Why Darkies Were Born." In the final throes of this extravaganza occurs a glimpse of Heaven in which the audience is led to imagine that Producer White imagines that Negroes imagine they will all turn, on the other side of Jordan, into beautiful, naked...
Since Lyricist Bud De Sylva left the team of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson a faint note of illiteracy has crept into the words of the remaining pair's songs. Mr. Vallee, A.B. Yale 1927, must wince a little when he has to sing...
...subject of conversation away from politics and gangsters, one of the safest and happiest topics they can bring up is wonderful season of summer opera at Ravinia on the North Shore. There, in an all, fresco theatre amidst a sylvan park, stars from the Metropolitan and other leading companies sing nightly before large audiences. Ravinia is about 20 miles from Chicago, but the perfection of the music and the beauty of its setting lead thousands to travel there regularly by motor or train...