Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anniversary preacher: Manhattan's Rev. Charles Edward Jefferson, famed for lofty mind and simple heart. A great choir of 500 will sing the hymns of 25 years ago. "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" will be sung for Founder Clifford Webster Barnes who, now 68 and ailing since last summer, is in Pasadena, Calif, with his 91-year-old mother, a granddaughter of Daniel Webster...
Metropolitan--"Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing." Sordid glimpses of life at another of our great institutions...
Irela has refused to face the fact that she is about to sing her operatic swan-song. No longer can she reach her high notes without taking a second breath but the reappearance of an ancient lover reminds her of the departed days when the students of St. Petersburg unhitched her horses and dragged her carriage through the streets. It takes the competition of a Spanish singer and a paralytic stroke to bring home the crushing truth: that she must henceforth pass her days in "farewell tours" singing numbers like "Comin' Thro' The Rye." Creditable indeed...
...maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending to be a lawyer's clerk. But in spite of his pains, in spite of instrumentation gaudy as the newssheet he was depicting, in many a critical opinion Grofé came in second at Paul Whiteman's concert...
Most of the verse is from the pen of John Cabbage, but not all. District Superintendent Emil Disch contributes "Sing a Song of Can Can." Excerpt...