Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry affair in two ways: 1) His cut-rate Mayflower residence led to a suspicion that Mr. Moore was trying to use him for political protection; 2) the 1928 Curtis-for-President campaign was conducted from headquarters in the Mayflower where one Al Gross, who served a term in Sing Sing for robbery, was active enough to get his picture taken with Candidate Curtis. Always touchy on the subject of his Mayflower residence, the Vice President of late has been flying into a blazing rage at any query about his connection with Mr. Moore...
...wife. Edith Mason, an excellent soprano. Married twice before, Soprano Mason became his wife in 1919, divorced him in 1928 charging cruelty. "This," he said, "is certainly a dreadful blow to me." Then she married Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein. Chicago surgeon. Last October it was made known she would sing no more with the Company and Maestro Polacco resigned in December because of ill health. Last month, divorced once more, Soprano Mason remarried him, and Dr. Bernstein said that "being married to Miss Mason [had been] like being married to him as well...
Tall, imposing as a board chairman of the old school, is Basso Witherspoon. His gallant mustachios have greyed in later years, lost something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime...
...great tenor is a debauched and frivolous celebrity who calls his fox-terrier Lohengrin, enjoys entertaining ladies in his dressing room, and goes to South America without his wife. There he discovers, in a moment which might have been one of beery pathos, that he can no longer sing. When he gets back to Germany, fresh air and exercise help restore his voice. Played in German, with a good anonymous tenor voice in the intervals when Emil Jannings makes gestures appropriate to singing, Der Grosse Tenor was exhibited in Manhattan last week at the UFA Cosmopolitan Theatre, hereafter...
Wanted?Young boy (brunette) to sing and play piano and work with two blondes...