Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wynn, whose real name is Israel Edwin Leopold, prides himself on being what he calls a "method comedian" rather than a "gag comedian." He never tells an off-color or race story, does not sing or dance. He buys some of his jokes from the Broadway "gag" factories, but writes most of his performances himself, working several hours a day on them. Wynn broadcasts consist of fast dialog between Funnyman Wynn and Graham McNamee. The latter does little talking except to feed cues. The program is punctuated by musical selections. Typical Wynn prattle: "The opera tonight. Graham, is very unusual...
...build up situations for his fellow-players. Many of the specialty numbers in the "Laugh Parade" draw their chief merit from the running commentary of Mr. Wynn in the background, and the peculiar funniness which he can impart to misfit clothing. Inspired by the success of "Of These I Sing," with satire on contemporary politics, "The Laugh Parade" directs most of its gags in the same direction, but with a success which raises it above mere imitation...
...sends into radio. They will not croon their way into overnight prosperity. They will not use voices so small and pinched that they are inaudible a few feet away in the studio. The control man will not be the real hero of their performances. Alda pupils must learn to sing in the canary bird's way. They must begin by developing tight abdominal muscles, soft, relaxed throats...
Some pupils have been taught to hold a lighted candle in front of their mouths to make sure that no gusts of breath come out with the sound, to sing into an open umbrella so that the sound of their own voices comes back to them. One old Italian teacher used to train his pupils on the syllables bee-bah-lo-nee exclusively. Methods and phobias outnumber teachers. Alda's teacher, the late great Mathilde Marchesi, who also taught Melba and Calve, would never permit a pupil of hers to have her hair washed...
Next week's concert will be Bob Craw ford's first formal appearance in Fairbanks. But many an oldtimer there remembers how, aged 7, Bob would sing the only song he knew, "In The Good Old Summer Time," while other children passed a fur hat among the miners. The Crawford family had migrated from Dawson, Canada, down the Yukon and up the Tanana River, looking for gold. They were among Fairbanks' first settlers. Bob Crawford first studied music on a mail order fiddle, with a French exile named Vic Durand. His first song, "My Northland," has been...