Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialite Marjorie Oelrichs to Jazzman Eddie Duchin whose Central Park Casino orchestra used to burst into the flattering strains of Margie whenever she arrived (TIME, June 17). Raja Brooke's jazz-struck Eliza was for a time a friend of languorous Scottish Actor Jack Buchanan who used to sing Eliza to her and nearly got her a part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets on his private cricket field, encourages "Momma" Litman...
Died. Charles Stanley Mitchell. 53. board chairman of the $175,000,000 Bank of United States when it closed in 1930; of heart disease, at High Hill, L. I. Indicted with other officers of the bank, he turned State's witness, helped send them to Sing Sing for misapplication of the bank's funds...
...What I will do first, what I will sing first when I am fully recovered I am not sure. I love concert work. . . . But opera was my first love, and I hope that soon the public will respond to it as music lovers did some years...
...players, aged 10 to 18, earn from $75,000 to $100,000 a year for the Orphanage. Once girls & boys played together in the bands but, says Daniel Jenkins, "They got too fresh and I had to separate them." Now the girls play in their own bands or sing to the boys' accompaniment. Each band-section is chaperoned and guided by a ministerial graduate of the Orphanage. Boys wear dark blue uniforms, girls simple print dresses...
...burlesque comedian who makes a hit in a Broadway show and falls in love with a fickle society heiress while his faithful wife and partner goes back to "burleycue." Before Comedian Brown is brought to see the error of his ways he is given opportunity not only to sing and dance but turn a back somersault, take innumerable falls, chase madly hither & yon, utter his famed maniacal yell on numerous occasions and tell in baby talk an interminable story about a " 'little bitsy mousie." To show his dramatic ability, he also folds his great mouth into an expression...