Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tonight, with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the best. There pours out of them an old familiar tale-of a Hollywood cockeyed, imbecile, exciting, exasperating. The medium: marvelous. The methods: terrible. "Music," they insist, "must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual experience was to hand in a score and, when the picture was produced, to find the score either missing or massacred. Once they worked for 15 months at M-G-M., and turned out only five songs. Says Rodgers: "In New York we often write five...
During the Spring recess the Glee Club is making a trip to Chicago to sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; concerts are being arranged at many of the large cities between here and there. Throughout the year there will be also numerous smaller concerts in and about Boston, such as the concert with the Smith College Glee Club on December...
Officers of the Glee Club have always stressed the fact that the purpose of the organization is not merely to give public performances but also to promote interest in the singing of good music. For this reason, therefore, many men are permitted to attend the rehearsals, although it is impossible for all of them to sing in concerts...
Arrested for imitating trumpet-voiced Songstress Martha Raye at Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach Baths, where she had a permit to act but not to sing, little Audrey Golub. 9, pleaded that she just "couldn't resist it" when she heard the applause...
Although he is a strict disciplinarian, Principal Hoxton is popular among his boys, whom he calls "Ol Bill" or "Ol Joseph." Long abandoned is the old school rule that "no student .shall sing any Negro or low song," but such practices as smoking and drinking are strictly regulated. Prime aim of the school is to turn out "Christian gentlemen." Its honor system is scrupulously enforced. The boys themselves once stoned from the grounds a student caught stealing...