Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixteen men were selected last night from a group of fifty to form a choir of men's voices that will broadcast twice a week over WNAC. On Wednesdays at 10.30 o'clock, and Sundays at 6 o'clock, the group will sing from the stage of Keith's "Boston," under the auspices of the Sallinger Furriers. From the singers will be selected a trio and a quartet for specialities. Fifteen members of the Instrumental Club and twenty members of the Glee Club appeared at the trials...
Leading lady is witty, torch-singing Ethel Merman, whose face is as plump as her voice is sharp. Anything Goes further boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as Throttlebottom, he is funnier still as "Moonface" Mooney, Public Enemy No. 13. Disguised as a parson, he is forced to flee the country on an ocean liner, soon attaches himself to Billy Crocker (Gaxton), a playboy following a long-lost sweetheart, and Reno Sweeney (Merman), an evangelist turned night club...
Strip women (or strip teasers, as they are called in the trade) do not dance, and the ability to sing is by no means an essential. They stalk about the stage, exercising blandishments and removing as many clothes as local authorities will permit. They are largely responsible for the fact that, with eight empty first class theatres in Manhattan, three burlesque houses on 42nd Street alone are jampacked nightly...
After dinner, at about 8 o'clock the Glee Club will sing, while before the singing a droll, consisting of short seems from Shakespeare's comedy "Mid-Summer Night's Dream," will be played it the Common Room...
...octet which will sing vocal choruses for the Gold Coast Orchestra is the largest of the special singing units. There are also two quartets, one of which will sing "Gay Nineties" medleys, and the other close harmony pieces. One soloist, Henry B. Robbins '36, will render comic songs, accompanying himself on the guitar...