Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brussels, the German Ambassador refused to allow an Austrian singer and two German dancers to entertain the Foreign Press Association at its dinner until assurance had been given that Nazi newspapermen would not be humiliated by having to listen to Josef Schmidt, German-Jewish tenor, sing in German. Instead, Tenor Schmidt sang songs in French, Rumanian - and Italian - which made the Italian press attaché hopping...
Climax of the celebration was the arrival in Pretoria of the eight dusty wagons. Because the Boers and their backers would not sing God Save the King, Prime Minister General J.B.M. Hertzog was obliged to stay away. The crowd of 150,000 would not listen to English. So a message from King George VI was read in Afrikaans, the Boer language. Then a tattered Transvaal flag, saved from falling into British hands in the Boer War, was unfurled high on the site of a monument soon to be erected to the Voertrekkers...
...tickling account of her mythical family. Since these relatives, invented for her by the Burns & Allen gagmen, are either nitwits, convicts or a blend of the two, they are frequently identified by their places of residence-Alcatraz for father, such other Federal and State penitentiaries as San Quentin, Joliet, Sing Sing, Leavenworth for brothers, uncles, cousins...
...Most important event of the Metropolitan's week was the revival, after 14 years, of Verdi's Falstaff. To sing its title role, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett donned a five-bushel stuffed stomach and so plastered his face with make-up that only his lips and eyeballs could move. Getting him into his costume took four men an hour and forty-five minutes. Tibbett himself sweated away five pounds during the performance. The audience, delighted by the ingratiating and sophisticated Verdi score, thought the effort worthwhile...
...musical von Trapps always sang and played just for the fun of it, never thought of turning professional. When Soprano Lotte Lehmann heard them, she suggested concerts. When Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg heard them over the radio, he invited them to sing in Vienna. Soon the von Trapps were touring the whole map of Europe...