Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week NBC got the White House Portico Quartet to sing "Home on the Range'' over a network. The quartet: Roosevelt Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, United Press's Fred Storm, Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger, Universal Service's Edward Roddan.* President Roosevelt interrupted a White House conference on the National Recovery Act to listen in. When the singers finished, the President telephoned the broadcasting studio. Disguising his voice he got the quartet leader on the wire. Approximately the following dialog then took place...
...alive as the steel industry which grew to spread its commercial smoke over practically everything else in Bethlehem. Farmers and later factory workers came to share "Mr. Fred's'' love for the music of Bach, for the great B Minor Mass whose choruses they learned to sing like professionals...
Bethlehem this spring entrusted its festival to the leadership of Bruce Anderson Carey, a bespectacled, broad-shouldered Canadian of 57 who teaches at Girard College in Philadelphia, trains and conducts the Mendelssohn Glee Club so well that Conductor Leopold Stokowski frequently engages it to sing difficult choral works with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like blond-mopped Stokowski, Bruce Carey conducted last week without a baton, bringing out the Mass's mighty effects with direct, compelling gestures of his two bare hands. During intermission Festival directors met to discuss ways & means of perpetuating Fred Wolle's idea, to keep Bethlehem...
Julia lived in an exciting world, and knew it. She heard Adelina Patti sing, was carried away by Johann Strauss's conducting, thrilled to Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's eyewitness account of Balaclava, wrote exclamation-filled pages on the Franco-Prussian War, and mourned, as even a poor little rich girl could, the Chicago Fire which swept away their grand house, her studio with its private staircase...
...Shipwreck Ball" which opens at 9.30 o'clock tonight. The committee has arranged for Larry Funk and his "Band of a Thousand Melodies" from the New York Palais d'Or to play for the dancing, while a girl who has been a member of several Broadway shows will sing with the band and help to make the shipwreck life more cheerful...