Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, 26, onetime (1930-35) famed athlete of Sing Sing Prison, who after his release won permission to play professional baseball by appealing to baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; and Mary Taltha Walker, 19, fellow millworker; in York...
...find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate the scratchy voices, learn to sing Il Trovatore, and end by preferring it, for better or worse, to their own ancient chants...
Most popular number is one in which Mussolini, Hitler, Eden and a Japanese general, bedight with halos and wings, slyly kill each other with pistols, daggers, machine guns tucked away in their angelic robes. All the while they sweetly sing...
...Waters sing, numerous varicolored name-bands play, watch dusky, graceful Marva Trotter (Mrs. Joe) Louis and white, gracious Irene Castle McLaughlin model their own clothes. Last week Mesdames Louis and Castle met to discuss plans, pose for pictures...
...advantage is diminutive, fluty Lily Pons. A shrewd producer like Jesse L. Lasky, having seen petite Miss Pons in the gold brassiere and flowered wrap-around skirt of Lakme, could see at a glance that there was more in Miss Pons than met the ear. When Suzette (Lily Pons), singing in Paris with a jazz band, declares "It is to sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade her shirt, etc. for a brief costume of feathers and a habitat in darkest Africa. Her purpose, inspired by Pressagent Corny...