Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white as the white robe he wore, Negro Actor Richard B. Harrison ("De Lawd" of The Green Pastures) sat under a spotlight before 30,000 spectators in Chicago's Soldier Field one night last week. Three blacks to one white, they were there to see and hear 0 Sing a New Song, a gigantic three-act pageant of the Negro race. The solemn words of Narrator Harrison put in motion a sight & sound spectacle that required the voices of 5,000 U. S. blacks, the wild antics of a handful of Basuto tribesmen brought from Africa for the occasion...
Before a shimmering white mansion actors in brown and green hold up white cotton stalks. King Mumbra is now a house servant. The White Mistress tells the story of Moses in Egypt. A rifle sounds. The lights flash back to the cotton field. The chorus sings "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give...
Booker T. Washington stands at Tuskegee. Minstrels sing spirituals. The pageant becomes modern Harlem medley. Irene Castle McLaughlin explains her old-time dances, the "Bunny Hug," the "Hesitation," the ''Maxine." A chorus dances them. Orchestra Leader Noble Sissle recalls the War with his ''On Patrol in No Man's Land." Bill Robinson does a tap dance, brings down the house, encores again and again. W. C. Handy leads his "St. Louis Blues." All 5,000 voices break into a tremendous chant...
...Hill was running a model kindergarten in Louisville, Ky. Grover Cleveland was President and Lillian Russell was the talk of Broadway. One day, Patty Hill's sister, Mildred, wrote a jingling little tune to which Patty fitted words. They published the song, copyrighted it, and sometimes Patty Hill would sing thus to her kindergarten children...
...later, Dorothy Stone) and Clifton Webb, had Broadway by the ears. In one of this revue's most popular skits Clifton Webb appears as John D. Rockefeller Sr. while his children and grandchildren dance about him offering him a birthday cake and Rockefeller Center as a birthday present. They sing...