Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surlily refused to command them to retreat. Dangerous tension was broken when a buxom, yellow-haired woman leaped to the stand. She was Marotta Arsonis, a New York trained nurse who had befriended the B. E. F. Seizing a megaphone, she yelled: "Be calm, men! Be calm! Let's sing." She tuned up with "America...
...Governor forward as his successor at Albany. Acting Governor Lehman has run the State quietly and well for many a week while its chief executive was in Georgia having his lame legs treated. Last week Mr. Lehman gave a 30-day reprieve to a murderer, condemned to death in Sing Sing prison...
...their choruses, second-string sing ers and orchestra players, Laurence Productions drew largely upon Cleveland tal ent. They assembled 500 performers for Carmen, plus donkeys and mules. To last year's spectacular Aïda, they added 100 new spear-carriers. The small, patient, well-scrubbed elephant of Aïda was present once more, figured also in Tom-Tom. In Die Walkure there were not the usual nine but 17 Valkyries galloping over the mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real...
...primitive chants, the spirituals and the modern jazz rhythms of her race. Tom-Tom's costumes, shields and tattoo marks had been designed by 19 Cleveland Negro artists. From London had come deep-voiced Jules Bledsoe, original "Ol' Man River" singer in Show Boat, to sing the part of the Voodoo Man. On a windy, cloudy night last week, second night in Cleveland's open air opera season, nearly 15.000 persons were present, the 25? and 50? seats well filled with Cleveland Negroes lustily applauding. They watched the Girl prepare for sacrifice in a real...
...most beautiful women on the American stage." She made her operatic debut in Czechoslovakia, sang first in the U. S. during Cleveland's opera last summer. Last week's audience admired her dusky acting, applauded lustily when Impresario Maurice Frank thanked her for coming from Hollywood to sing at this benefit (Girls' Service League, Boys' Club of New York). They found her voice sweet but thin, lost in the vast Polo Grounds. More at home were Mezzo-Soprano Carmela Ponselle (sister of Rosa) and Baritone Giuseppe Martino-Rossi. Soprano Gahagan announced she would return to California...