Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the great success of the joint concert of the Harvard Glee Club and the Princeton University Chapel Choir on April 6 of last year, the Glee Club has been invited again this year to sing with the Princeton Chapel Choir on Sunday, April...
...describe what they had seen. If they missed a point that was intended to be clear Chaplin-feeling that his story must be understood by everyone, even the stupid or the distracted-would have the scene refilmed. In rest intervals he would play "Violetera" on his harmonium and sing an imitation of Spanish words to it in the manner of Raquel Meller. One afternoon he nearly lost his mustache. He has had the same one for 15 years. A Manhattan theatrical barber picked it out for him. He says that if he ever loses it he will play smooth shaven...
Additional injections of atmosphere are made between scenes-while some extremely simple and effective scenery by Raymond Sovey is being shifted-by the appearance of a number of cowpunchers who sing old Western songs. This technique is not unlike that of Girl Crazy, the musicomical neighbor of Green Grow the Lilacs. When one overcomes the impression that Green Grow the Lilacs is a succession of song cues, it becomes a diverting presentation...
...Daniel Alfred Poling of Manhattan, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of Manhattan. Their selection depended largely on their nearness to the main broadcasting office in Manhattan. Besides them, 286 other Protestants have taken part?occasional Sundays, at morning devotional periods, at "hymn-sing" Thursday evenings, during Lent and at Thanksgiving. They represented all major Protestant denominations and all parts of the U. S. None was paid. Singers and musicians, however, were paid?$67,247.23. In the daily devotional programs they performed 736 hymns taken from 19 different hymnals. They reached from ten stations (Hymn...
...important character in Wagner's Götterdämmerung is Grane, the horse which Brünhilde gives to Siegfried as testimony of her love, to which she must sing her final immolation music and then ride bravely into the flaming pyre. A good Grane is as hard to find as a good German tenor. He must look spirited yet be willing to stand quietly while singers sing loudly and at close range, strings whir, brasses blare, drums pound and steam hisses up through the stage traps. In St. Paul, when the German Grand Opera visited there last...