Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contralto Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen, had not been touring the Riviera with her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello, two years ago, if they had not stopped off at the opera house in Montpellier and heard an unknown French girl sing Lucia in true coloratura fashion, U. S. audiences would not be paying fancy prices this season to hear Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband...
Eliot House will hold a dinner on Sunday evening, at which Mr. Steuart Wilson will be the guest of honor. Following the dinner, Mr. Wilson will sing some songs in the Common Room. He has been on a tour of America which started with his concert here two weeks ago in the Paine Hall of the Music Building, soon after his arrival from England where he lives. The program will include mainly English, German, and American melodies and perhaps some arias from Bach...
...Manhattan she will sing Tosca, hitherto regarded as the sacred property of Soprano Maria Jeritza, also tall, blonde, athletic, but no spitter...
...haired Miss Smith is the waif who insinuates herself into people's homes, makes a livelihood from the food, drink, tips they give her. A Little Racketeer is concerned with one instance in which this cozzening does not come off quite as she plans. But she manages to flirt, sing, dance her way out of a passably exciting situation. There is plenty of good music...
Last week Publisher Macfadden began to make up for lost time. Upon the front of his Graphic he spread a full page "composograph" (faked picture) of a young man in Sing Sing's electric chair. The young man was Francis ("Two Gun") Crowley, 20, undersized, dull-witted hoodlum who murdered a policeman last year. His capture was a sensation of the sort on which he thrived. Cornered in a midtown apartment house with his 17-year-old girl friend and another gunman, he held off more than 100 police, armed with tear gas and machine guns, for two hours...