Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likely to be appointed prefect of the Holy Congregation of Propaganda, a high position of which the incumbent is called the "Red Pope" because of his world-wide influence in missionary affairs. One of the first things Cardinal-elect Fumasoni-Biondi did in Rome last week was sing mass at Sacred Heart convent where his sister dwells as Mother Gertrude...
...eleven carloads of garrulous, good-humored people chuffed out of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one morning this week. The Metropolitan Opera Company, its future still undecided,* was on the way to Baltimore. There pretty Lily Pons would exhibit her clear, high trills in Rigpletto. Graceful Lucrezia Bori would sing in Pagliacci. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett would stain himself brown and enact Emperor Jones. The Company's famed Wagnerians would sing in Tristan und Isolde...
Manhattan's Gramophone Shop reports three other big-selling records from abroad: a medley of Noel Coward's best-known songs which Coward took time to sing in his casual, high-pitched voice; a scene from the Savoy Follies given last summer in London in which Actress Florence Desmond does shrewd imitations of screen celebrities attending a Hollywood party; a comic take-off on any bad lieder singer done by the French comedian Betove. Most popular of the new classical importations are the Beethoven Concertos (First & Fifth) which German Pianist Artur Schnabel has made with the London Symphony...
...then becoming the rage in Vienna. Greta Keller knew no English but she made up sounds which resembled it, sang to the girls in the dressing-room between acts. They jokingly gave her schillings and she bought brandy to treat them all. Several months later she was asked to sing her "English" songs at Vienna's famed Pavilion. She bought phonograph records of "Mean to Me" and "Annabelle Lee," learned to sing them by rote-to the amusement of two U. S. vandevillians who had joined the Pavilion troupe...
...SING BEFORE BREAKFAST-Vincent McHugh-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Love among the artists at a seaside resort...