Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Fannie Brice, on the other hand, there is practically never cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...
...great Canadian woods, does such things as French operatic versions of "Romeo and Juliet." There are also such incidents as the surprise appearance of large crowds to applaud private performances, and gum-chewing piano pounders telling outraged song birds to get hot, Toots, and compete with ladies who sing with their hips. These devices are strongly reminiscent of a young woman named Grace Moore, and it seems a shame that they should appear in a story with so great pportunities for pleasing freshness...
...Singing oldtime gospel hymns at a Bowery mission in Manhattan on Sundays is an earnest, round-faced woman who twelve years ago in Indianapolis dedicated herself to the service of God and the Volunteers of America.* Mrs. Lillian B. Ulrey claims that she was paralyzed from the waist down when friends persuaded her to attend her first Volunteer gathering. There she suddenly felt a call to rise from her wheel chair, march up to the platform and sing He Lifted Me. Cured, she felt free to marry Walter Otis Ulrey, a stocky young businessman, who willingly renounced his worldly goods...
...Choir to Sing...
...regular church choir will sing under the direction of Dr. Davison, and the service will be similar to many others being given throughout the United States on the morning of the funeral of the late King...