Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cuckoo will not sing Surely I its neck shall wring...
When famed singers like Feodor Chaliapin, Amelita Galli-Curci or Beniamino Giglo give concerts in Vienna they are usually paid $2,000 or $3,000 per appearance. When Al Jolson, mammy song singer, now vacationing in Europe, was asked last week by a Viennese manager to sing there, he replied that he would-for $5,000. Vienna refused the bargain...
Grace Moore, sightly, luxuriating Metropolitan Opera soprano, went last week to Jellico, Tenn., to sing "I Love You Truly" and "At Dawning" at her sister Emily's wedding. On the way she confided to pressmen that in her sound film debut, recently arranged for, she would appear as the late, great, prudish Jenny Lind. Her second picture will probably be The Merry Widow, made jointly with Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett...
...Methodist Episcopal), for the construction of which he raised $5,000,000. Dr. Reisner is chairman of the Church Advertising Group of the Advertising Club of New York; author of Church Publicity, Workable Plans for Wideawake Churches, Roosevelt's Religion. He once arranged to have Contralto Louise Homer sing, and Actor Fred Stone speak, to publicize his church...
Tibbett. His father was sheriff of Kern County, Calif, at the time of the oil boom. Lawrence, born in 1896, found out in the Manual Arts College of Los Angeles that he could sing. He studied with Frank La Forge in Manhattan, served in the Navy, married, got a job with the Metropolitan Opera Company. One night in 1925 an odd thing happened to him. He was sitting in his dressing room after the second act of Verdi's Falstaff-his aria, "E sogno," had ended the act. He heard the house applauding but thought they wanted the Falstaff...