Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most people know about the Mills Brothers now because they perform over the radio twice a week for Vapex. They sing in trick quartet fashion and when it pleases them they can simulate perfectly a tuba, a trumpet and a pair of saxophones. Their voices, unaided, are too small for vaudeville. But they use their radio technique, huddle around an amplifier-microphone...
...Thee I Sing...
...France, but sententious Protestant Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York was furious last week. He had been to see one of the most amusing two acts of musical insanity current on Broadway, Of Thee I Sing. An early scene in the play represented the campaign headquarters of Mr. Wintergreen, candidate for the U. S. Presidency. When he jilted the winner of a beauty contest, who turned out to be "the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon," the bishop's pulse remained about normal. Then the French Ambassador, represented as a fidgety little...
...songs which the choristers will sing include: "Heart of Oak", music by William Boyce, 1759; and words by David Garrick, 1759: "The World Turned Upside Down", anonymous; "Liberty Tree", by Thomas Paine, 1775; "Battle of the Kegs", by Francis Hopkinson, 1778; "Chester" William Brilings, 1777; "The Yankee's Return From Camp", by Edward Bangs, 1775; "American Hearts of Oak", by J. W. Hewlings, 1775; and "War and Washington", by Jonathan M. Sewall...
...show, he recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect blend of the "hey-nonny-nonny...