Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty, with yellow hair curled by her mother's fingers, she was picked by a scout for Educational Pictures. Her professional career started with a role in Baby Burlesks. Encouraged, Mrs. Temple worked hard submitting Shirley to all studios reported needing children. In 1934 she was cast to sing "Baby Take a Bow" in Fox's Stand Up and Cheer (TIME, April 30, 1934). The picture was feeble but Shirley was a hit. Hollywood distrusts infant performers. They are likely to be greedy, temperamental, slow to learn and quick to outlive their value. Perplexed by what it regarded...
...Cornelius Bliss. In an auditorium in a brand new ivory-colored concrete and aluminum building these, and those residents who like to think of Colorado Springs as "the Boston of the West," were to hear Albert Spalding fiddle, watch Martha Graham dance, hear Soprano Eva Gauthier sing. There was also art to be seen: indigenous paintings of the Southwest and a loan collection of Cezanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Braque, Leger. All this manifestation of the life of the spirit was to open a brand new cultural fane in the Rockies: Colorado Springs' $1,000,000 Fine Arts Center...
...atmosphere of the Roman triumph is being composed by Elliott C. Carter '30 of New York. The Composer is using the themes of modern Italian folk music which are believed to have descended from the music of the old Greek festivals at which the emperor Nero used to sing...
...Kemp's Brunswick recording of the famous Hungarian suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, a letter from the composer was received by his good friend and former Budapest studio-mate, Karoly Nyaray, now of New York City. I met Nyaray, who possesses a fine tenor voice, alter I heard him sing Szomorú Vasárnap on Columbia's Hungarian record of Gloomy Sunday. He showed me the letter and translated it for me. ... I am quoting...
...fatal fame" hurts me. It hurls that so many people chose this song as their death march, making it world-famous with their act. People who die with a song must have beautiful souls, but I do not compose them for that purpose. I write songs to have people sing them and enjoy themselves while doing it. What prompted me to compose this song? It is hard to answer. . . . You know what struggles and disappointments I have gone through. There are healed wounds which sometimes open . . . the past returns and tears them. It was in one of these moments that...