Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Group one on the program will consist of "shout For Joy" by Bach, "Supplications" by Palestvina, and "Chey-uses For Freemasons" by Mozart. In the second group the Glee Club will sing choruses from "the Yeoman of the Guard" by Sullivan, "Liebeslieder," and three folk songs by Brahms...
Stammering afflicts some 1,000,000 U. S. citizens, is difficult to cure because it usually springs from emotional maladjustment. A stammerer until he was 30, Lawyer Smith was impressed by the observation that stammerers have no trouble singing. One day when he heard Clergyman-Novelist Charles Kingsley, a stammerer, preach and sing without a hitch, he had an idea. Stammerer Smith cured himself, formed the Kingsley Club, enrolled Philadelphians and New Yorkers (mostly businessmen) and set out to cure them of stammering. He gave them deep breathing exercises and "inspiration." had them pronounce words slowly and rhythmically...
...days after a stormy Atlantic crossing, German Opera Star Lotte Lehmann trotted out on the stage of London's Covent Garden * to sing the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. In the middle of the first act and a high note she stopped singing. Shouting in English "I can't go on," she rushed from the stage, fell in a dead faint. From a stage box stepped the Viennese soprano, Hilde Konetzni, due to make her London debut the next night. Dressmakers hastily pinned up Diva Lehmann's costumes to fit Hilde Konetzni's shorter, plumper figure. Whereupon...
Next day SEC finally found someone who had thought it best to warn the Exchange of Richard Whitney's condition- none other than his lawyer, Randolph Mason. Fortified with written permission from Richard Whitney in Sing Sing to divulge anything relating to the case, Lawyer Mason said he had asked Stock Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very...
...music and lyrics are by Harold J. Rome, and at least one of the songs, "Sing Me a Song of Social Significance," is extremely entertaining. Not much is demanded in the way of acting, but all the players swing through their parts with a pleasing gusto, and Ruth Rubenstein, who does most of the female specialties, is quite charming in her pouting...